The Wadsworth Anthology of Drama, Brief Edition
by Worthen, W.Edition: 6th
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2010-01-01
Publisher(s): Cengage Learning
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Table of Contents
| Introduction: Drama, Theater, and Culture | |
| Reading Drama and Seeing Theater | |
| Drama and Theater in History | |
| Dramatic Genres | |
| Dramatic Form | |
| The Stage in Critical Practice | |
| Interpreting the Mterial Past | |
| The Theater Of Classical Europe | |
| Aside: Roman Drama and Theater | |
| Reading the Material Theater: Pronomos Painter | |
| Sophocles, Oedipus the King | |
| Euripides, Medea | |
| Plautus, The Brothers Menaechmus | |
| Critical Contexts: Aristotle, from The Poetics | |
| Horace, from On the Art of Poetry | |
| Classical Japan | |
| Aside: Sanskrit Drama and Theater | |
| Reading the Material Theater: A Portrait of Seki Sanjuro II | |
| Matsukaze | |
| Chushingura: The Forty-Seven Samurai | |
| Critical Contexts: Zeami Motokiyo, from A Mirror Held to the Flower | |
| Medieval and Renaissance England | |
| Aside: The Jacobean Court Masque | |
| Reading the Material Theater: Titus Andronicus title page | |
| Anonymous, The York Crucifixion | |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | |
| Hamlet | |
| Critical Contexts: Sir Philip Sidney, from Apology for Poetry | |
| Early Modern Europe | |
| Aside: Commedia Dell' Arte | |
| Reading the Material Theater: Betterton's acting style | |
| Pedro Calder?n de la Barca, Life Is a Dream | |
| Tartuffe | |
| The Rover | |
| Sor Juana In?s de la Cruz, Loa to The Divine Narcissus | |
| Critical Contexts: John Dryden, Preface to Troilus and Cressida, Containing the Grounds of Criticism in Tragedy | |
| Modern Europe | |
| Aside: Melodrama | |
| Reading the Material Theater: Ibsen's Notes for the Modern Tragedy | |
| A Doll's House | |
| Ubu Roi | |
| A Dream Play | |
| Major Barbara | |
| Mother Courage and Her Children | |
| Endgame | |
| Cloud Nine | |
| Critical Contexts: Friedrich Nietzsche, from The Birth of Tragedy | |
| From Naturalism in the Theatre | |
| From "Direction and Acting" | |
| "The Street Scene" | |
| From The Theater and Its Double | |
| The United States | |
| Aside: The Federal Theater Project | |
| Aside: Performance Art | |
| Reading the Material Theater: "A Jury of Her Peers," | |
| Trifles | |
| Machinal | |
| The Glass Menagerie | |
| Death of a Salesman | |
| Amiri Barake | |
| Dutchman | |
| Los vendidos | |
| M. Butterfly | |
| Angels in America, Part 1 Milennium Approaches | |
| Fires in the Mirror | |
| Critical Contexts: Arthur Miller, Tragedy and the Common Man | |
| Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones, "The Revolutionary Theatre" | |
| World Stages | |
| Aside: Intercultural Performance | |
| Reading the Material Theater: Program Notes for Translations | |
| Information for Foreigners | |
| Death and the King's Horseman | |
| Translations | |
| The Other Shore | |
| Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing | |
| Harvest | |
| Critical Contexts: Frantz Fanon, from "The Fact of Blackness." | |
| From Theatre of the Oppressed | |
| From Post-Colonial Drama | |
| Glossary | |
| List of Illustrations and Photographs | |
| Index | |
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