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The Wadsworth Anthology of Drama

by: Worthen, W. B.

The Wadsworth Anthology of Drama

by: Worthen, W. B.

ISBN 13:
9780838407509
ISBN 10:
0838407501
Edition: 4th
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 07/24/2003
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
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Summary

Known through three 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.

Preface

iii

Introduction: Drama, Theater, and Culture

(8)

Reading Drama and Seeing Theater

(1)

Drama and Theater in History

(4)

Dramatic Genres

(1)

Dramatic Form

(1)

The Stage in Critical Practice

(1)

Reading the Material Theater

(2)

UNIT I Classical Athens

(114)

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 Performance in Performance History

(1)

ASIDE Roman Drama and Theater

(2)

READING THE MATERIAL THEATER

(77)

Aeschylus

Agamemnon

(20)

Sophocles

Oedipus the King

(20)

Euripides

Medea

(16)

Aristophanes

Lysistrata

(18)

CRITICAL CONTEXTS

Aristotle, from The Poetics

(9)

PERFORMANCE IN HISTORY

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

106

(5)

Niall W. Slater, from "The Idea of the Actor"

111

(6)

AN ACTOR'S PERSPECTIVE

Interview with Fiona Shaw on Medea

117

(4)

PERFORMANCE REVIEW

Michael Billington, review of The Oresteia. Royal National Theatre (1981)

121

(2)

UNIT II Classical Japan

123

(74)

The Development of Noh Theater

127

(3)

The Development of Doll Theater

130

(2)

The Development of Kabuki Theater

132

(3)

Classical Japanese Drama in Performance History

135

(1)

ASIDE Sanskrit Drama and Theater

136

(4)

READING THE MATERIAL THEATER

140

(28)

Kan'ami

Kiyotsugu Matsukaze

141

(7)

Nakamura Matagoró II and James R. Brandon, adaptors

Chushingura: The Forty-Seven Samurai

148

(20)

CRITICAL CONTEXTS

Zeami Motokiyo, from "A Mirror Held to the Flower"

168

(10)

PERFORMANCE IN HISTORY

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

178

(12)

A PLAYWRIGHT'S PERSPECTIVE

Zeauri Motokiyo, from Teachings on Style and the Flower

190

(6)

PERFORMANCE REVIEW

Sandra Schlanger, review of Chushingura: The Forty-Seven Samurai. University of Hawai'i (1979)

196

(1)

UNIT III Medieval and Renaissance England

197

(174)

Drama and Theater in Medieval England

199

(3)

Staging Medieval Drama

202

(3)

Drama and Theater in Renaissance London

205

(1)

The Professional Theater and Its Society

205

(5)

ASIDE Shakespeare's Globe

210

(2)

Drama and Performance

212

(1)

Women in Drama and Performance

213

(1)

ASIDE The Jacobean Court Masque

214

(3)

Medieval and Renaissance Drama in Performance and History

217

(5)

READING THE MATERIAL THEATER

222

(129)

Anonymous

The Wakefield Second Shepherds' Pageant

224

(12)

Anonymous

Everyman

236

(11)

Christopher Marlowe

Doctor Faustus

247

(27)

William Shakespeare

Hamlet

274

(48)

The Tempest

322

(29)

CRITICAL CONTEXTS

Sir Philip Sidney, from Apology for Poetry

351

(2)

PERFORMANCE IN HISTORY

Phyllis Backfin, "Misogyny is Everywhere"

353

(9)

AN ACTOR'S PERSPECTIVE

Michael Pennington, "Hamlet," from Players of Shakespeare

362

(6)

PERFORMANCE REVIEW

Mel Gussow, review of Hamlet, Directed by John Barton. Royal Shakespeare Company (1980)

368

(3)

UNIT IV Early Modern Europe

371

(158)

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

(122)

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Life Is a Dream

387

(27)

Molière

Tartuffe

414

(30)

Jean Racine

Phaedra

444

(20)

Aphra Behn

The Rover

464

(35)

Sor Juana Inés 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)

PERFORMANCE IN HISTORY

Katharine Eisanlan Maus, from "'Playhouse Flesh and Blood': Sexual Ideology and the Restoration Actress"

518

(5)

AN ACTRESS'S PERSPECTIVE

Hippolite Clairon, from Memoirs of Hippolite Clairon, the Celebrated French Actress; With Reflections Upon the Dramatic Arts

523

(3)

PERFORMANCE REVIEW

Frank Rich, review of The Rover, Directed by John Rubinstein. The Williamstown Theatre (1987)

526

(3)

UNIT V Modern Europe

529

(420)

Theater and Culture to 1950

531

(7)

ASIDE Melodrama

538

(3)

Theater and Culture Since 1950

541

Modern European Drama in Performance and History

540

(1)

READING THE MATERIAL THEATER

541

(357)

Henrik Ibsen

A Doll House

551

(20)

August Strindberg

The Father

571

(26)

Anton Chekhov

The Cherry Orchard

597

(24)

Elizabeth Robins

Votes for Women!

621

(31)

Bernard Shaw

Major Barbara

652

(34)

Luigi Pirandello

Six Characters in Search of an Author

686

(23)

Bertolt Brecht

Mother Courage and Her Children

709

(29)

Samuel Beckett

Endgame

738

(24)

Harold Pinter

The Homecoming

762

(26)

Marguerite Duras

India Song

788

(28)

Heiner Müller

Hamletmachine

816

(6)

Caryl Churchill

Cloud Nine

822

(29)

David Edgar

Pentecost

851

(47)

CRITICAL CONTEXTS

Friedrich Nietzsche, from The Birth of Tragedy

898

(3)

Emile Zola, frons Naturalism in the Theatre

901

(6)

Martin Esslin, from The Theatre of the Absurd

907

(3)

Fredric Jameson, from "Postmodernism and Consumer Society"

910

(4)

PERFORMANCE IN HISTORY

Constantin Stanislavski,"Direction and Acting"

914

(5)

Bertolt Brecht, "Theatre for Pleasure or Theatre for Instruction"

919

(3)

Antonin Artand, front Tue Theater and Its Double

922

(6)

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

928

(10)

A DIRECTOR'S PERSPECTIVE

"A Director's Approach: An Interview with Peter Hall on his Production of The Homecoming"

938

(7)

PERFORMANCE REVIEW

Bernard Shaw, review of A Doll's House. Globe Theatre (1897)

945

(2)

Ben Brantley, review of A Doll's House. Belasco Theater (1997)

947

(2)

UNIT VI The United States

949

(390)

"The" American Theater?

951

(1)

European Influence and American Innovation

952

(2)

Postwar Experiments

954

(1)

African-American Drama and Theater

955

(1)

ASIDE The Federal Theater Project

956

(2)

Popular Theater and Mass Culture

958

(1)

American Drama in Performance and History

959

(1)

ASIDE Performance Art

960

(2)

READING THE MATERIAL THEATER

962

(356)

Dion Boucicault

The Octoroon

965

(22)

Susan Glaspell

Trifles

987

(7)

Angelina Weld Grimké

Rachel

994

(26)

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

(12)

Luis Valdez and El Teatro Campesino

Los Vendidos

1111

(5)

Maria Irene Fornes

Fefu and Her Friends

1116

(17)

Sam Shepard

True West

1133

(22)

August Wilson

Fences

1155

(27)

David Henry Hwang

M. Butterfly

1182

(25)

Tony Kushner

Angels in America, Part 1: Millennium Approaches

1207

(31)

Anna Deavere Smith

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

1238

(31)

Naomi Iizuka

36 Views

1269

(23)

Sutan-Lori Parks

Topdog/Underdog

1292

(26)

CRITICAL CONTEXTS

Arthur Miller, from "Tragedy and the Common Man"

1318

(2)

Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones, from "The Revolutionary Theatre"

1320

(2)

PERFORMANCE IN HISTORY

August Wilson, "The Ground on Which I Stand"

1322

(6)

Robert Brustein, "Subsidized Separatism"

1328

(3)

A DESIGNER'S PERSPECTIVE

Arnold Aronson, "Design for Angels in America: Envisioning the Millennium"

1331

(6)

PERFORMANCE REVIEW

Ben Bramley, review of Topdog/Underdog. Joseph Papp Public Theater (2001)

1337

(2)

UNIT VII World Stages

1339

(320)

A Global Theater?

1341

(1)

Postcolonial Perspectives

1342

(2)

Postcolonial Drama in Performance and History

1344

(19)

Analyzing Postcolonial Theater and Drama

1363

(2)

ASIDE Intercultural Performance

1365

(1)

READING THE MATERIAL THEATER

1366

(263)

Satoh Makoto

My Beatles

1368

(13)

Aimé Césaire

A Tempest

1381

(17)

Griselda Gambaro

Information for Foreigners

1398

(21)

Athol Fugard, John Kath, Winston Ntshona

The Island

1419

(13)

Wole Soyinka

Death and the King's Horseman

1432

(25)

Brian Friel

Translations

1457

(26)

Maishe Maponya

Gangsters

1483

(13)

Jack Davis

No Sugar

1496

(37)

Gao Xingjian

The Other Shore

1533

(16)

Tomson Highway

Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing

1549

(29)

Judith Thompson

Lion in the Streets

1578

(19)

Manjula Padmanabhan

Harvest

1597

CRITICAL CONTEXTS

Frantz Fanon, "The Fact of Blackness"

1629

(10)

Horri Bhabha, "Of Mimicry and Man: The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse"

1639

(5)

PERFORMANCE IN HISTORY

Gilbert and Joanne Tompkins, from Post-Colonial Drama

1644

(8)

A PLAYWRIGHT'S PERSPECTIVE

Athol Fugard, from Notebooks

1652

(5)

PERFORMANCE REVIEW

John Bernrose, review of Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing. Royal Alexandria Theatre (1991)

1657

(2)

Appendix: Writing About Drama and Theater

1659

(8)

Glossary

1667

(12)

Bibliography

1679

(20)

Appendix: Video, Film, and Sound Recordings of Plays

1699

(10)

Credits

1709

(4)

Index

1713

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