R. S. Gwynn has edited several other books, including Fiction: A Pocket Anthology; Poetry: A Pocket Anthology; Literature: A Pocket Anthology; Inside Literature: Reading, Responding, Writing (with Steven Zani); The Art of the Short Story (with Dana Gioia); and Contemporary American Poetry: A Pocket Anthology (with April Lindner). He has also authored five collections of poetry, including No Word of Farewell: Selected Poems, 1970-2000. He has been awarded the Michael Braude Award for verse from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Gwynn is University Professor of English and Poet-in-Residence at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas.
Preface | p. vii |
Introduction | p. 1 |
The Play's the Thing | p. 1 |
Origins of Drama | p. 3 |
Aristotie on Tragedy | p. 5 |
Plot | p. 7 |
Characterization | p. 10 |
Theme | p. 12 |
Diction | p. 13 |
Melody | p. 15 |
Spectacle | p. 16 |
Brief History and Description of Dramatic Conventions | p. 18 |
Writing About Drama | p. 25 |
Drama | p. 33 |
Sophocles(496? - 406 B.C.) Antigone, translated | p. 35 |
Twelfth Night; or, What You Will, edited | p. 83 |
An Enemy of the People, adapted | p. 166 |
Trifles | p. 237 |
The Glass Menagerie | p. 251 |
The Sandbox | p. 312 |
"Master Harold". . . and the boys | p. 319 |
The Piano Lesson | p. 362 |
Sure Thing | p. 443 |
The Cuban Swimmer | p. 454 |
The God of Carmage, translated | p. 469 |
Acknowledgments | p. 515 |
Index of Critical Terms | p. 517 |
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