The Harcourt Anthology of Drama, Brief Edition

by Worthen, W. B.

• ISBN13: 9780155063952
• ISBN10: 0155063952
• Edition: Brief
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-08-15
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

Based on the best-selling HARCOURT ANTHOLOGY OF DRAMA, the Brief Edition provides many of the important elements of that anthology but in a more streamlined form.

Table of Contents

Preface	iii
Introduction: Drama, Theater, and Culture	1	(2)
Reading Drama and Seeing Theater	3	(2)
Drama and Theater in History	5	(3)
Dramatic Genres	8	(1)
Dramatic Form	9	(1)
The Stage in Critical Practice	9	(2)
UNIT I CLASSICAL ATHENS	11	(86)
(Aside) Roman Drama and Theater	20	(77)
Oedipus the King	25	(20)
Sophocles
Medea	45	(16)
Euripides
Aristophanes	61	(36)
Lysistrata
Critical Contexts Aristotle, from the Poetics	79	(10)
``The Idea of The Actor''	89	(8)
Niall W. Slater
UNIT II CLASSICAL JAPAN	97	(50)
(Aside) Sanskrit Drama and Theater	110	(37)
Matsukaze	113	(7)
Kan'ami Kiyotsugu
Chushingura: The Forty-Seven Samurai	120	(27)
Nakamura Matagoro II
James R. Brandon
Critical Contexts ``Teachings on Style and the Flower''	139	(8)
Zeami Motokiyo
UNIT III MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE ENGLAND	147	(120)
(Aside) Shakespeare's Globe	160	(4)
(Aside) The Jacobean Court Masque	164	(103)
Everyman	171	(11)
Anonymous
Hamlet	182	(47)
William Shakespeare
The Tempest	229	(38)
Critical Contexts from Apology for Poetry	258	(1)
Sir Philip Sidney
``Anatomies of Playing''	259	(8)
Louis Montrose
UNIT IV EARLY MODERN EUROPE	267	(134)
(Aside) Commedia dell'Arte	280	(121)
Life Is a Dream	283	(26)
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Tartuffe	309	(29)
Moliere
The Rover	338	(35)
Aphra Behn
Loa to The Divine Narcissus	373	(28)
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
Critical Contexts ``Preface to Troilus and Cressida, Containing the Grounds of Criticism in Tragedy''	381	(12)
John Dryden
``Playhouse Flesh and Blood': Sexual Ideology and the Restoration Actress''	393	(8)
Katharine Eisaman Maus
UNIT V MODERN EUROPE	401	(216)
(Aside) Melodrama	410	(207)
A Doll House	421	(27)
Henrik Ibsen
The Cherry Orchard	448	(23)
Anton Chekhov
Major Barbara	471	(34)
Bernard Shaw
Mother Courage and Her Children	505	(28)
Bertolt Brecht
Endgame	533	(23)
Samuel Beckett
Cloud Nine	556	(61)
Caryl Churchill
Critical Contexts The Birth of Tragedy	584	(4)
Friedrich Nietzsche
Naturalism in the Theatre	588	(8)
Emile Zola
``Direction and Acting''	596	(6)
Constanting Stanislavski
``Theatre for Pleasure or Theatre for Instruction''	602	(5)
Bertolt Brecht
The Theater and Its Double	607	(10)
Antonin Artaud
UNIT VI THE UNITED STATES	617	(160)
(Aside) The Federal Theater Project	624	(4)
(Aside) Performance Art	628	(149)
Trifles	631	(6)
Susan Glaspell
The Glass Menagerie	637	(27)
Tennessee Williams
Los Vendidos	664	(5)
Luis Valdez
Fences	669	(27)
August Wilson
M. Butterfly	696	(24)
David Henry Hwang
Angels in America, Part I: Millennium Approaches	720	(31)
Tony Kushner
The America Play	751	(26)
Suzan-Lori Parks
Critical Contexts ``Tragedy and the Common Man''	766	(2)
Arthur Miller
``Beyond the Culture Wars''	768	(9)
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
UNIT VII WORLD STAGES	777	(170)
(Aside) Intercultural Performance	795	(152)
A Tempest	796	(17)
Aime Cesaire
Death and the King's Horseman	813	(24)
Wole Soyinka
Translations	837	(26)
Brian Friel
Gangsters	863	(13)
Maishe Maponya
Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing	876	(29)
Tomson Highway
Valley Song	905	(42)
Athol Fugard
Critical Contexts ``The Fact of Blackness''	921	(14)
Frantz Fanon
Post-Colonial Drama	935	(12)
Helen Gilbert
Joanne Tompkins
Appendix: Writing about Drama and Theater	947	(10)
Glossary	957	(12)
Bibliography	969	(14)
Video, Film, and Sound Recordings of Plays	983	(3)
Credits	986	(3)
Index	989