The Wadsworth Anthology of Drama, Brief Edition
by Worthen, W. B.Edition: 5th
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2006-02-15
Publisher(s): Wadsworth Publishing
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Summary
THE WADSWORTH ANTHOLOGY OF DRAMA, BRIEF EDITION offers you a bold and most distinguished introduction to drama packed with exciting plays usefully situated within their historical and cultural contexts.
Author Biography
W. B. Worthen is Professor and Chair of the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies at the University of California, Berkeley
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. vii |
| Introduction: Drama, Theater, and Culture | p. 1 |
| Reading Drama and Seeing Theater | p. 1 |
| Drama and Theater in History | p. 3 |
| Dramatic Genres | p. 5 |
| Dramatic Form | p. 6 |
| The Stage in Critical Practice | p. 7 |
| Interpreting the Material Past | p. 7 |
| Classical Athens | p. 9 |
| The City Dionysia | p. 11 |
| The Theater of Dionysus | p. 12 |
| Theater and Social Life | p. 13 |
| Drama and Performance | p. 15 |
| Women in the Athenian Theater | p. 16 |
| Forms of Greek Drama | p. 16 |
| Greek Drama in Performance History | p. 17 |
| Aside: Roman Drama and Theater | p. 18 |
| Reading the Material Theater | p. 20 |
| Oedipus the King | p. 23 |
| Medea | p. 43 |
| Lysistrata | p. 59 |
| Critical Contexts | |
| from The Poetics | p. 77 |
| Classical Japan | p. 87 |
| The Development of Noh Theater | p. 91 |
| The Development of Doll Theater | p. 94 |
| The Development of Kabuki Theater | p. 96 |
| Classical Japanese Drama in Performance History | p. 99 |
| Aside: Sanskrit Drama and Theater | p. 100 |
| Reading the Material Theater | p. 104 |
| Matsukaze | p. 105 |
| adaptors Chushingura: The Forty-Seven Samurai | p. 112 |
| Critical Contexts | |
| from "A Mirror Held to the Flower" | p. 132 |
| Medieval and Renaissance England | p. 143 |
| Drama and Theater in Medieval England | p. 145 |
| Staging Medieval Drama | p. 148 |
| Drama and Theater in Renaissance London | p. 151 |
| The Professional Theater and Its Society | p. 151 |
| Aside: Shakespeare's Globe | p. 156 |
| Drama and Performance | p. 158 |
| Women in Drama and Performance | p. 159 |
| Aside: The Jacobean Court Masque | p. 160 |
| Medieval and Renaissance Drama in Performance and History | p. 163 |
| Reading the Material Theater | p. 168 |
| Everyman | p. 170 |
| Hamlet | p. 181 |
| The Tempest | p. 229 |
| Critical Contexts | |
| from Apology for Poetry | p. 258 |
| Early Modern Europe | p. 261 |
| The Political Climate | p. 263 |
| Theater in France, 1660-1700 | p. 265 |
| Theater in England, 1660-1737 | p. 267 |
| Theater in Spain's Golden Age, 1580-1680 | p. 269 |
| Dramatic Innovation in France, England, and Spain | p. 272 |
| Aside: Commedia dell' Arte | p. 273 |
| Neoclassicism, Drama, and Theater | p. 274 |
| Early Modern Drama in Performance and History | p. 275 |
| Reading the Material Theater | p. 276 |
| Life Is a Dream | p. 277 |
| Tartuffe | p. 304 |
| The Rover | p. 334 |
| Loa to The Divine Narcissus | p. 369 |
| Critical Contexts | |
| "Preface to Troilus and Cressida, Containing the Grounds of Criticism in Tragedy" | p. 378 |
| Modern Europe | p. 389 |
| Theater and Culture to 1950 | p. 391 |
| Aside: Melodrama | p. 398 |
| Theater and Culture Since 1950 | p. 401 |
| Modern European Drama in Performance and History | p. 406 |
| Reading the Material Theater | p. 407 |
| A Doll House | p. 411 |
| The Importance of Being Earnest | p. 438 |
| The Cherry Orchard | p. 460 |
| Major Barbara | p. 484 |
| Mother Courage and Her Children | p. 518 |
| Endgame | p. 547 |
| Cloud Nine | p. 571 |
| Blasted | p. 600 |
| Critical Contexts | |
| from The Birth of Tragedy | p. 617 |
| from Naturalism in the Theatre | p. 620 |
| "Direction and Acting" | p. 626 |
| "Theatre for Pleasure or Theatre for Instruction" | p. 631 |
| from The Theater and Its Double | p. 634 |
| from Theatre of the Oppressed | p. 640 |
| The United States | p. 647 |
| "The" American Theater? | p. 649 |
| European Influence and American Innovation | p. 650 |
| Postwar Experiments | p. 652 |
| African-American Drama and Theater | p. 653 |
| Aside: The Federal Theater Project | p. 654 |
| Popular Theater and Mass Culture | p. 656 |
| American Drama in Performance and History | p. 657 |
| Aside: Performance Art | p. 658 |
| Reading the Material Theater: Susan Glaspell, "A Jury of Her Peers" | p. 680 |
| Trifles | p. 669 |
| The Glass Menagerie | p. 676 |
| Death of a Salesman | p. 702 |
| Zoot Suit | p. 737 |
| Fences | p. 764 |
| Angels in America, Part 1: Millennium Approaches | p. 791 |
| Critical Contexts | |
| from "Tragedy and the Common Man" | p. 822 |
| from "The Revolutionary Theatre" | p. 824 |
| World Stages | p. 827 |
| A Global Theater? | p. 829 |
| Postcolonial Perspectives | p. 830 |
| Postcolonial Drama in Performance and History | p. 832 |
| Analyzing Postcolonial Theater and Drama | p. 854 |
| Reading the Material Theater | p. 856 |
| Aside: Intercultural Performance | p. 858 |
| Information for Foreigners | p. 859 |
| Translations | p. 880 |
| "Master Harold" ...and the boys | p. 906 |
| Harvest | p. 924 |
| Critical Contexts | |
| from "The Fact of Blackness" | p. 956 |
| Glossary | p. 967 |
| Credits | p. 977 |
| Index | p. 981 |
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