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Anthology of Living Theater

by Wilson, Edwin; Goldfarb, Alvin

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3rd

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9780073514130

ISBN10:

0073514136

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Paperback

Pub. Date:

12/13/2006

Publisher(s):

McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

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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.

Preface

vii

Introduction: How to Read a Play

Where and When the Play Takes Place: The Setting and Circumstances

xiv

Who the Participants Are: The Characters

xvi

What Kind of Play It Is: Categories and Genres

xvi

How the Play Unfolds: Action and Theme

xvii

The Play Begins

xvii

The Play Progresses

xviii

The Theme

xviii

The Conclusion

xix

AN ANTHOLOGY OF PLAYS

Sophocles, Antigone, trans, and ed. Peter D. Arnott

(22)

Aristophanes, Lysistrata, trans. Douglas parker

(52)

Plautus, The Menaechmus Brothers, trans. and ed. E. F. Watling

(26)

Abraham and Isaac, adapt, the editors

103

(10)

Kan'ami Kiyotsugu, Sotoba Komachi, trans. Arthur Waley

113

(6)

William Shakespeare, Hamlet, ed. and with notes by Tucker Brooke and Jack Randall Crawford

119

(64)

Moliere, Tartuffe, trans. Richard Wilbur

183

(32)

Susanna Centlivre, The Busy Body

215

(42)

Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House, trans. Eva Le Gallienne

257

(38)

Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard, trans. Constance Garnett

295

(28)

August Strindberg, A Dream Play, trans. Walter Johnson

323

(34)

Bertolt Brecht, The Good Woman of Setzuan, trans. Eric Bentley and Maja Apelman

357

(50)

Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

407

(40)

Samuel Beckett, Krapp's Last Tape

447

(8)

Charles Ludlam, The Mystery of Irma Vep

455

(28)

August Wilson, Joe Turner's Come and Gone

483

(38)

Caryl Churchill, Far Away

521

(12)

John Leguizamo, Excerpts from Freak

533