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Stages of Drama: Classical to Contemporary Theater

With a distinctive emphasis on performance and a comprehensive selection of classic and contemporary plays — Stages of Drama truly engages students by presenting plays not only as texts on the page, but also as works that come to life on the stage.

Contents:

Reading and witnessing a play

Classical theater

Medieval theater

Renaissance English theater

Neoclassical theater

Modern theater

Contemporary theater

Ideas of drama : classical to contemporary.

The plays: Agamemnon / Aeschylus

Oedipus Rex / Sophocles

The Bacchae / Euripides

Lysistrata / Aristophanes

A funny thing happened on the way to the wedding (casina) / Plautus

The second shepherds' play / The Wakefield Master

Everyman / Anonymous

The tragical history of the life and death of Doctor Faustus / Christopher Marlowe

Much ado about nothing ; The tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice / William Shakespeare

Volpone, or The foxe / Ben Jonson

The misanthrope / Molière

The rover / Aphra Behn

The school for scandal / Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Woyzeck / Georg Büchner

A doll's house / Henrik Ibsen

Miss Julie / August Strindberg

The importance of being Earnest / Oscar Wilde

In the shadow of the glen / John Millington Synge

The cherry orchard / Anton Chekhov

Pygmalion / Bernard Shaw

Six characters in search of an author / Luigi Pirandello

Homecoming / Eugene O'Neill

The house of Bernarda Alba / Federico García Lorca

Galileo / Bertolt Brecht

Death of a salesman / Arthur Miller

Cat on a hot tin roof / Tennessee Williams

The lesson / Eugène Ionesco

Endgame / Samuel Beckett

The zoo story / Edward Albee

A raisin in the sun / Lorraine Hansberry

Dutchman / Amiri Baraka

Landscape / Harold Pinter

Absurd person singular / Alan Ayckbourn

Death and the King's horseman / Wole Soyinka

Pantomime / Derek Walcott

Translations / Brian Friel

"Master Harold" and the boys / Athol Fugard

Top girls / Caryl Churchill

'night mother / Marsha Norman

Fences / August Wilson

M. Butterfly / David Henry Hwang

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 1731
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 978-0-312-39733-3
  • EAN
  • 9780312397333
  • Genres
  • plays, theatre, drama, reference, anthologies
  • Release date
  • 2002