Seagull Reader : Drama
ISBN: 9780393925012 | 0393925013
Format: PaperbackPublisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Pub. Date: 9/30/2004
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Each volume offers an inviting mix of classics and less familiar pieces, complemented by concise genre introductions, short headnotes and annotations, brief author biographies, and a glossary of terms.The Readers also include access to innovative writing tips, study and review material, and much more at LitWeb and Norton Literature Online.
Less than half the price of full-length anthologies and more economical than most value editions, The Seagull Readers are a portable and inexpensive alternative to bulky anthologies.
Less than half the price of full-length anthologies and more economical than most value editions, The Seagull Readers are a portable and inexpensive alternative to bulky anthologies.
| Acknowledgments | vii | ||||
| Note on Dates | x | ||||
| Introduction | xi | ||||
| What Is Drama? | xi | ||||
| Dramatic Conventions Then and Now | xii | ||||
| Cultural Context | xii... MORE | ||||
| Page versus Stage | xiv | ||||
| The Parts of a Play | xvi | ||||
| Plot | xvi | ||||
| Character | xix | ||||
| Spectacle | xxi | ||||
| Symbolism | xxiii | ||||
| Tragedy | xxv | ||||
| Comedy | xxviii | ||||
| Major Moments in the History of Theater | xxix | ||||
| Greek Theater | xxix | ||||
| Elizabethan Theater | xxxii | ||||
| Nineteenth-Century Middle-Class Theater | xxxv | ||||
| The Provincetown Players | xxxvi | ||||
| Contemporary American Theater | xxxviii | ||||
| Regional Theaters | xl | ||||
| Conclusion | xl | ||||
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| Biographical Sketches | 535 | (6) | |||
| Glossary | 541 | (6) | |||
| Permissions Acknowledgments | 547 |
Joseph Kelly (Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin) is Associate Professor of English at the College of Charleston
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