Anthology of Living Theater

by Wilson, Edwin; Goldfarb, Alvin

• ISBN13: 9780070707740
• ISBN10: 007070774X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-06-01
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill College

Summary

This anthology of 18 plays offers a convenient and affordable alternative to ordering individual play scripts, with the additional benefit of a general introduction and headnotes. .

Table of Contents

PREFACE	v
HOW TO READ A PLAY	3	(10)
Where and When the Play Takes Place: The Setting and Circumstances	3	(2)
Who the Participants Are: The Characters	5	(1)
What Kind of Play It Is: Categories and Genres	5	(2)
How the Play Unfolds: Action and Theme	7	(6)
The Play Begins	7	(1)
The Play Progresses	7	(1)
The Theme	8	(1)
The Conclusion	8	(5)
AN ANTHOLOGY OF PLAYS	13
Sophocles
Peter D. Arnott
Antigone	13	(19)
Plautus
E. F. Watling
The Menaechmus Brothers	32	(23)
Abraham and Isaac, adapt. the editors	55	(8)
Kwanami Kiyotsugu
Arthur Waley
Sotoba Komachi	63	(5)
William Shakespeare
Tucker Brooke
Jack Randall Crawford
Hamlet	68	(60)
Moliere
Richard Wilbur
Tartuffe	128	(32)
Susanna Centlivre
The Busy Body	160	(36)
Anton Chekhov
Constance Garnett
The Cherry Orchard	196	(27)
August Strindberg
Walter Johnson
A Dream Play	223	(32)
Bertolt Brecht
Eric Bentley
Maja Apelman
The Good Woman of Setzuan	255	(48)
Tennessee Williams
The Glass Menagerie	303	(32)
Samuel Beckett
Krapp's Last Tape	335	(7)
Luis Valdez
Zoot Suit	342	(38)
Charles Ludlam
The Mystery of Irma Vep	380	(26)
August Wilson
Joe Turner's Come and Gone	406	(35)
Anna Deavere Smith
Twilight Los Angeles, 1992	441