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The Wadsworth Anthology of Drama

by: Worthen, W. B.

The Wadsworth Anthology of Drama

by: Worthen, W. B.

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9781413017670
ISBN 10:
1413017673
Edition: 5th
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 01/13/2006
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
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Known through four editions as the boldest and most distinguished introduction to drama, William Worthen's pace-setting text continues to provide exciting plays usefully situated within their historical and cultural contexts. In its fifth edition, THE WADSWORTH ANTHOLOGY OF DRAMA broadens its scope to offer even more plays than ever before.

Preface

Introduction: Drama, Theater, and Culture

(1)

Reading Drama and Seeing Theater

(2)

Drama and Theater in History

(2)

Dramatic Genres

(1)

Dramatic Form

(1)

The Stage in Critical Practice

(1)

Interpreting the Material Past

(2)

Unit I Classical Athens

(128)

The City Dionysia

(1)

The Theater of Dionysus

(1)

Theater and Social Life

(2)

Drama and Performance

(1)

Women in the Athenian Theater

(1)

Forms of Greek Drama

(1)

Greek Drama in Performance History

(1)

Aside Roman Drama and Theater

(2)

Reading the Material Theater

(117)

Aeschylus The Oresteia

(1)

Agamemnon

(20)

The Libation Bearers

(14)

The Eumenides

(12)

Sophocles Oedipus the King

(20)

Euripides Medea

(16)

Aristophanes Lysistrata

105

(18)

Critical Contexts

Aristotle, from The Poetics

123

(9)

Critical Perspectives

Sue-Ellen Case, from ``Classic Drag: The Greek Creation of Female Parts''

132

(5)

Unit II Classical Japan

137

(68)

The Development of Noh Theater

141

(3)

The Development of Doll Theater

144

(2)

The Development of Kabuki Theater

146

(3)

Classical Japanese Drama in Performance History

149

(1)

Aside Sanskrit Drama and Theater

150

(4)

Reading the Material Theater

154

(51)

Kan'ami Kiyotsugu Matsukaze

155

(7)

Nakamura Matagoro II and James R. Brandon, adaptors Chushingura: The Forty-Seven Samurai

162

(20)

Critical Contexts

Zeami Motokiyo, from ``A Mirror Held to the Flower''

182

(10)

Critical Perspectives

Graham Ley, ``Aristotle's Poetics, Bharatamuni's Natyasastra, and Zeami's Treatises: Theory as Discourse''

192

(13)

Unit III Medieval and Renaissance England

205

(166)

Drama and Theater in Medieval England

207

(3)

Staging Medieval Drama

210

(3)

Drama and Theater in Renaissance London

213

(1)

The Professional Theater and Its Society

213

(5)

Aside Shakespeare's Globe

218

(2)

Drama and Performance

220

(1)

Women in Drama and Performance

221

(1)

Aside The Jacobean Court Masque

222

(3)

Medieval and Renaissance Drama in Performance and History

225

(5)

Reading the Material Theater

230

(141)

Anonymous The Wakefield Second Shepherds' Pageant

232

(12)

Anonymous Everyman

244

(11)

Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus

255

(27)

William Shakespeare, Hamlet

282

(48)

The Tempest

330

(29)

Critical Contexts

Sir Philip Sidney, from Apology for Poetry

359

(2)

Critical Perspectives

Phyllis Rackin, ``Misogyny Is Everywhere''

361

(10)

Unit IV Early Modern Europe

371

(152)

The Political Climate

373

(2)

Theater in France, 1660--1700

375

(2)

Theater in England, 1660--1737

377

(2)

Theater in Spain's Golden Age, 1580--1680

379

(3)

Dramatic Innovation in France, England, and Spain

382

(1)

Aside Commedia dell' Arte

383

(1)

Neoclassicism, Drama, and Theater

384

(1)

Early Modern Drama in Performance and History

385

(1)

Reading the Material Theater

386

(137)

Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Life Is a Dream

387

(27)

Moliere, Tartuffe

414

(30)

Jean Racine, Phaedra

444

(20)

Aphra Behn, The Rover

464

(35)

Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Loa to The Divine Narcissus

499

(9)

Critical Contexts

John Dryden, ``Preface to Troilus and Cressida, Containing the Grounds of Criticism in Tragedy''

508

(10)

Critical Perspectives

Katharine Eisaman Maus, from ``'Playhouse Flesh and Blood': Sexual Ideology and the Restoration Actress''

518

(5)

Unit V Modern Europe

523

(446)

Theater and Culture to 1950

525

(7)

Aside Melodrama

532

(3)

Theater and Culture Since 1950

535

(5)

Modern European Drama in Performance and History

540

(1)

Reading the Material Theater

541

(428)

Henrik Ibsen, A Doll House

545

(27)

August Strindberg, Miss Julie

572

(24)

Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

596

(22)

Minna Canth, Anna-Liisa

618

(26)

Anton Chekov, The Cherry Orchard

644

(24)

Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara

668

(34)

Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author

702

(23)

Bertolt Brecht, Mother Courage and Her Children

725

(29)

Jean Genet, The Balcony

754

(32)

Samuel Beckett, Endgame

786

(24)

Harold Pinter, The Homecoming

810

(26)

Heiner Muller, Hamletmachine

836

(6)

Caryl Churchill, Cloud Nine

842

(29)

Sarah Kane, Blasted

871

(17)

David Hare, Stuff Happens

888

(36)

Critical Contexts

Friedrich Nietzsche, from The Birth of Tragedy

924

(3)

Emile Zola, from Naturalism in the Theatre

927

(6)

Constantin Stanislavski, ``Direction and Acting''

933

(5)

Bertolt Brecht, ``Theatre for Pleasure or Theatre for Instruction''

938

(3)

Antonin Artaud, from The Theater and Its Double

941

(6)

Augusto Boal, from Theatre of the Oppressed

947

(6)

Performance in History

Martin Esslin, from The Theatre of the Absurd

953

(3)

Fredric Jameson, from ``Postmodernism and Consumer Society''

956

(3)

Una Chaudhuri, from Staging Place: The Geography of Modern Drama

959

(10)

Unit VI The United States

969

(344)

``The'' American Theater?

971

(1)

European Influence and American Innovation

972

(2)

Postwar Experiments

974

(1)

African-American Drama and Theater

975

(1)

Aside The Federal Theater Project

976

(2)

Popular Theater and Mass Culture

978

(1)

American Drama in Performance and History

979

(1)

Aside Performance Art

980

(2)

Reading the Material Theater Susan Glaspell, ``A Jury of Her Peers''

982

(331)

Dion Boucicault, The Octoroon

991

(22)

Susan Glaspell, Trifles

1013

(7)

Eugene O'Neill, The Hairy Ape

1020

(18)

Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

1038

(26)

Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman

1064

(35)

Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones, Dutchman

1099

(11)

Luis Valdez, Zoot Suit

1110

(27)

Sam Shepard, True West

1137

(22)

August Wilson, Fences

1159

(27)

David Henry Hwang, M. Butterfly

1186

(25)

Tony Kushner, Angels in America, Part 1: Millennium Approaches

1211

(31)

Anna Deavere Smith, Fires In the Mirror: Crown Heights, Brooklyn and Other Identities

1242

(31)

Suzan-Lori Parks, Topdog/Underdog

1273

(26)

Critical Contexts

Arthur Miller, from ``Tragedy and the Common Man''

1299

(2)

Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones, from ``The Revolutionary Theatre''

1301

(2)

Critical Perspectives

August Wilson, ``The Ground on Which I Stand'' / Robert Brustein, ``Subsidized Separatism''

1303

(10)

Unit VII World Stages

1313

(316)

A Global Theater?

1315

(1)

Postcolonial Perspectives

1316

(2)

Postcolonial Drama in Performance and History

1318

(22)

Analyzing Postcolonial Theater and Drama

1340

(2)

Reading the Material Theater

1342

(2)

Aside Intercultural Performance

1344

(285)

Aime Cesaire, A Tempest

1345

(17)

Griselda Gambaro, Information for Foreigners

1362

(21)

Wole Soyinka, Death and the King's Horseman

1383

(25)

Brian Friel, Translations

1408

(26)

Athol Fugard, ``Master Harold'' . . . and the boys

1434

(18)

Louis Nowra, The Golden Age

1452

(29)

Gao Xingjian, The Other Shore

1481

(16)

Vaclav Havel, Temptation

1497

(28)

Tomson Highway, Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing

1525

(29)

Manjula Padmanabhan, Harvest

1554

(32)

Vassily Sigarev, Black Milk

1586

(19)

Critical Contexts

Frantz Fanon, ``The Fact of Blackness''

1605

(11)

Critical Perspectives

Homi K. Bhabha, ``Of Mimicry and Man: The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse''

1616

(4)

Helen Gilbert and Joanne Tompkins, from Post-Colonial Drama

1620

(9)

Glossary

1629

(12)

Credits

1641

(8)

Index

1649

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