The Compact Bedford Introduction to Drama

by Lee A. Jacobus

• ISBN13: 9780312255954
• ISBN10: 0312255950
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2000-09-06
• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's

Summary

Adapted from the fourth edition of The Bedford Introduction to Drama, this abbreviated version provides students with all the features of the longer book in a briefer, less expensive format.

Table of Contents

Preface for Instructors	iii
Introduction: Thinking about Drama	1	(28)
What Is Drama?	1	(1)
Drama and Ritual	2	(1)
Drama: The Illusion of Reality	2	(1)
Seeing a Play Onstage	3	(2)
Theaters and Their Effect	4	(1)
Reading a Play	5	(1)
The Great Ages of Drama	6	(7)
Greek Drama	6	(1)
Roman Drama	6	(1)
Medieval Drama	7	(1)
Renaissance Drama	8	(1)
Late Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Drama	9	(1)
Nineteenth-Century Drama through the Turn of the Century	10	(1)
Drama in the Early and Mid-Twentieth Century	11	(1)
Contemporary Drama	12	(1)
Genres of Drama	13	(2)
Tragedy	13	(1)
Comedy	14	(1)
Tragicomedy	14	(1)
Elements of Drama	15	(6)
Plot	15	(1)
Characterization	16	(1)
Setting	17	(1)
Dialogue	18	(1)
Music	19	(1)
Movement	19	(1)
Theme	19	(2)
Lady Gregory	21	(2)
The Rising of the Moon	23	(6)
Greek Drama	29	(100)
Origins of Greek Drama	29	(2)
The Greek and Their Gods	30	(1)
The Greek Stage	31	(1)
Genres of Greek Drama	31	(4)
Tragedy	31	(3)
Satyr Plays	34	(1)
Comedy	34	(1)
The Great Age of Greek Drama	35	(2)
Greek Drama Timeline	37	(2)
Sophocles	39	(1)
Oedipus Rex	40	(25)
Dudley Fitts
Robert Fitzgerald
Oedipus Rex in Performance	42	(23)
Commentaries on Oedipus Rex
Poetics: Comedy and Epic and Tragedy	65	(6)
Aristotle
The Oedipus Complex	71	(3)
Sigmund Freud
From The Structural Study of Myth	74	(3)
Claude Levi-Strauss
Antigone	77	(20)
Dudley Fitts
Robert Fitzgerald
Antigone in Performance	78	(19)
Commentaries on Antigone
Emotion and Meaning in Greek Tragedy	97	(1)
Oliver Taplin
From Antigone	98	(7)
Jean Anouilh
Aristophanes	105	(1)
Lysistrata	106	(21)
Dudley Fitts
Lysistrata in Performance	108	(19)
Commentary on Aristophanes
Review of Lysistrata	127	(2)
Brooks Atkinson
Roman Drama	129	(16)
Indigenous Sources	129	(1)
The Greek Influence	130	(1)
The Roman Stage	131	(2)
Roman Drama Timeline	133	(3)
Roman Dramatists	136	(9)
Plautus, Excerpt from The Twin Menaechmi (Act III)	136	(3)
Terence, Excerpt from The Brothers (Act V)	139	(4)
Seneca, Excerpt from Thyestes (Act V, Scene ii)	143	(2)
Medieval Drama	145	(35)
The Role of the Church	145	(1)
Miracle Plays	146	(1)
Mystery Plays	147	(1)
Morality Plays	148	(1)
The Medieval Stage	149	(1)
The Actors	150	(1)
Medieval Drama Timeline	151	(3)
Hrosvitha	154	(1)
Dulcitius	155	(4)
K. M. Wilson
Dulcitius in Performance	156	(3)
Commentaries on Hrosvitha
Reading Hrotsvit's Tormented Bodies	159	(1)
Marla Carlson
Re-viewing Hrotsvit	160	(7)
Sue-Ellen Case
Everyman	167	(13)
Everyman in Performance	168	(12)
Renaissance Drama	180	(146)
Italian Drama	180	(4)
Vitruvius and the Rediscovery of Roman Design	181	(1)
Commedia dell' Arte	182	(2)
Elizabethan Drama	184	(4)
The First Professional Companies	185	(1)
The Elizabethan Theater	185	(1)
The Elizabethan Audience	185	(2)
Female Characters on the English Stage	187	(1)
The Masque	187	(1)
Spanish Drama	188	(1)
Renaissance Drama Timeline	189	(3)
William Shakespeare	192	(2)
A Midsummer Night's Dream	194	(33)
A Midsummer Night's Dream in Performance	195	(32)
Commentaries on A Midsummer Night's Dream
Masque Elements in A Midsummer Night's Dream	227	(1)
Enid Welsford
On A Midsummer Night's Dream	228	(2)
Linda Bamber
The Play Is the Message	230	(3)
Peter Brook
Review of A Midsummer Night's Dream	233	(3)
Clive Barnes
Othello	236	(45)
Othello in Performance	238	(43)
Commentaries on Othello
Othello's Character	281	(7)
A. C. Bradley
Macready's Othello	288	(4)
Virginia Mason Vaughan
Going It Alone: A Review of Olivier's Othello	292	(2)
John Holstrom
A Cultural Casebook
The Issue of Race and Othello	294	(2)
From Mandeville's Travels	296	(2)
Sir John Mandeville
From Decades of the New World	298	(1)
Richard Eden
From A Geographical Historie of Africa	299	(3)
Leo Africanus
John Pory
From ``Othello and Color Prejudice''	302	(7)
G. K. Hunter
Shakespeare without Tears	309	(2)
Margaret Webster
Review of Patrick Stewart as Othello	311	(2)
Peter Marks
Ben Jonson	313	(1)
The Masque of Blackness	314	(7)
The Masque of Blackness in Performance	315	(6)
Commentary on Jonson
Africa in English Masque and Pageantry	321	(5)
Eldred Jones
Late Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Drama	326	(35)
The Restoration: Rebirth of Drama	326	(1)
Theater on the Continent: Neoclassicism	326	(2)
French Comedy: Moliere	327	(1)
Theater in England: Restoration Comedy of Manners	328	(4)
Eighteenth-Century Drama	330	(2)
Late Seventeenth- And Eighteenth-Century Drama Timeline	332	(3)
Moliere	335	(1)
The Misanthrope	336	(22)
Richard Wilbur
The Misanthrope in Performance	337	(21)
Commentary on Moliere
Alceste's Love for Celimene	358	(3)
Lionel Gossman
Nineteenth-Century Drama through the Turn of the Century	361	(140)
Technical Innovations	361	(1)
Romantic Drama	361	(2)
Melodrama	363	(2)
The Well-Made Play	365	(1)
The Rise of Realism	366	(3)
Nineteenth-Century Drama Timeline	369	(3)
Henrik Ibsen	372	(2)
A Doll House	374	(33)
Rolf Fjelde
A Doll House in Performance	376	(31)
Commentaries on A Doll House
Notes for the Modern Tragedy	407	(1)
Henrik Ibsen
A Doll's House	408	(2)
Bernard Shaw
A Doll's House: Ibsen the Moralist	410	(4)
Muriel C. Bradbrook
August Strindberg	414	(1)
Miss Julie	415	(17)
Harry G. Carlson
Miss Julie in Performance	416	(16)
Commentary on Strindberg
From the Preface to Miss Julie	432	(2)
August Strindberg
Oscar Wilde	434	(1)
The Importance of Being Earnest	435	(27)
The Importance of Being Earnest in Performance	436	(26)
Commentaries on Wilde
An Unpublished Letter from Oscar Wilde on The Importance of Being Earnest	462	(4)
Peter Raby
The Origins of The Importance of Being Earnest	466	(4)
Peter Raby
Anton Chekhov	470	(1)
The Cherry Orchard	471	(23)
Ann Dunnigan
The Cherry Orchard in Performance	472	(22)
Commentaries on Chekhov
From Letters of Anton Chekhov	494	(2)
Anton Chekhov
From Recollections	496	(1)
Maxim Gorky
On The Cherry Orchard	497	(1)
Virginia Woolf
Review of The Cherry Orchard	497	(2)
John Corbin
On Chekhov	499	(2)
Peter Brook
Drama in the Early and Mid-Twentieth Century	501	(285)
The Heritage of Realism	501	(1)
Realism and Myth	502	(1)
Myth and Culture	502	(1)
Poetic Realism	502	(1)
Social Realism	503	(1)
Realism and Expressionism	504	(1)
Antirealism	505	(1)
Epic Theater	506	(1)
Absurdist Drama	507	(1)
Early and Mid-Twentieth-Century Drama Timeline	508	(4)
Susan Glaspell	512	(1)
Trifles	513	(7)
Trifles in Performance	514	(6)
Commentary on Glaspell
On the Edge: The Plays of Susan Glaspell	520	(2)
Christine Dymkowski
Luigi Pirandello	522	(1)
Six Characters in Search of an Author	523	(23)
Edward Storer
Six Characters in Search of an Author in Performance	524	(22)
Commentary on Pirandello
Review of Six Characters in Search of an Author	546	(2)
John Corbin
Eugene O'Neill	548	(1)
Desire Under the Elms	549	(25)
Desire under the Elms in Performance	550	(24)
Commentary on O'Neill
Review of Desire under the Elms	574	(2)
Stark Young
Bertolt Brecht	576	(1)
Mother Courage	577	(31)
John Willett
Mother Courage in Performance	579	(29)
Commentaries on Brecht
The Alienation Effect	608	(4)
Bertolt Brecht
Notes for Mother Courage, Scene 12	612	(4)
Bertolt Brecht
Tennessee Williams	616	(1)
The Glass Menagerie	617	(31)
The Glass Menagerie in Performance	618	(30)
Commentaries on The Glass Menagerie
Review of The Glass Menagerie	648	(1)
Lewis Nichols
Laurette Taylor in The Glass Menagerie	649	(2)
Donald Spoto
Problems in The Glass Menagerie	651	(4)
Benjamin Nelson
Arthur Miller	655	(1)
Death of A Salesman	656	(41)
Death of a Salesman in Performance	658	(39)
Commentaries on Miller
In Memoriam	697	(2)
Arthur Miller
Tragedy and the Common Man	699	(3)
Arthur Miller
A Salesman Who Transcends Time	702	(3)
Michiko Kakutani
Death of a Salesman: The Design Process	705	(4)
Brenda Murphy
Samuel Beckett	709	(1)
Endgame	710	(30)
Endgame in Performance	712	(28)
Commentaries on Beckett
The Theater of the Absurd	740	(2)
Martin Esslin
The Ending of Endgame	742	(3)
Sidney Homan
Lorraine Hansberry	745	(1)
A Raisin in the Sun	746	(38)
A Raisin in the Sun in Performance	747	(37)
Commentary on Hansberry
Review of A Raisin in the Sun	784	(2)
Brooks Atkinson
Contemporary Drama	786	(145)
Experimentation	786	(5)
Theater of Cruelty	786	(1)
Environmental Theater	787	(1)
``Poor Theater''	787	(1)
Theater of Images	788	(1)
Gay and Lesbian Theater and Other New Ensembles	788	(2)
Experiments with Theater Space	790	(1)
Experimentation within the Tradition	791	(4)
Contemporary Drama Timeline	795	(4)
Athol Fugard	799	(1)
``Master Harold'' ... And the Boys	800	(20)
``Master Harold'' ... and the boys in Performance	801	(19)
Commentaries on Fugard
Interview with Athol Fugard	820	(2)
Heinrich von Staden
From Notebooks 1960-1977	822	(2)
Athol Fugard
August Wilson	824	(2)
Fences	826	(30)
Fences in Performance	827	(29)
Commentaries on Wilson
Interview with August Wilson	856	(2)
David Savran
Review of Fences	858	(3)
Frank Rich
Yasmina Reza	861	(1)
``Art''	861	(20)
Christopher Hampton
``Art'' in Performance	862	(19)
Commentary on Reza
What Is ``Art''?	881	(4)
Louis Menand
Paula Vogel	885	(1)
How I Learned to Drive	886	(23)
How I Learned to Drive in Performance	886	(23)
Commentaries on Vogel
Coast to Coast with Paula Vogel	909	(5)
Caridad Svich
Peter Franklin
Paula Vogel	914	(2)
David Savran
Review of How I Learned to Drive	916	(3)
Jill Dolan
Appendices
Writing About Drama	919	(12)
Why Write about Drama?	919	(1)
Conventions in Writing Criticism about Drama	919	(1)
Approaches to Criticism	920	(1)
Reader Response Criticism	920	(1)
Close Reading	921	(1)
From Prewriting to Final Draft: A Sample Essay on The Rising of the Moon	922	(5)
How to Write a Review	927	(1)
What Is the Purpose of a Review?	927	(1)
What You Need to Write a Good Review	927	(1)
Preparing to Review a Classic Play	928	(1)
Preparing to Review a New Play	928	(1)
Guidelines for Writing Reviews	929	(1)
Sample Reviews	929	(2)
Glossary of Dramatic Terms	931	(8)
Selected Bibliography	939	(17)
Selected List of Film, Video, and Audiocassette Resources	956