The Longman Anthology of Drama and Theater A Global Perspective (REPRINT)

by Greenwald, Mike; Schultz, Roger; Pomo, Roberto Dario

• ISBN13: 9780321291387
• ISBN10: 0321291387
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-07-12
• Publisher: Longman

Summary

The Longman Anthology of World Drama and Theatre is a fully-integrated text/anthology of drama with a global emphasis for the Introduction to Drama course. Divided into two parts: Part One covers the origins of drama: genres, conventions, styles and descriptions of roles, and Part Two is a six chapter anthology of plays, including plays from around the world with a solid core of western plays. Each chapter in Part Two includes visuals, maps, timelines, biographical and contextual headnotes, and an overview of the history and conventions of each period that help students gain a better understanding of the drama and theater being presented.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
PART I: The Theoretical and Practical Foundations of Theater	1	(102)
Stories, Rituals, and Theater: A Foundation for the Theatrical Arts	3	(30)
The Theatrical Impulse	3	(1)
The Storyteller	3	(1)
The Barong or Trance Dance of Bali	4	(2)
Forum: ``The Theatre As It Was and As It Is''	5	(1)
Robert Edmund Jones
A Broadway Musical	6	(1)
Rituals Versus Theater	6	(5)
An Autumnal Ritual in America	8	(1)
Forum: ``Acting in Everyday Life and Everyday Life in Acting''	9	(2)
Victor Turner
The Origins of Theater	11	(1)
Common Ground for Uncommon Cultures	11	(5)
Center Stage: The Abydos Passion Play	12	(4)
Reading a Play	16	(1)
Master Pierre Pathelin	17	(16)
Anonymous
From Theater to Drama	33	(34)
The Dramatic Impulse	33	(1)
The Poetics of Aristotle	34	(2)
Forum: ``From The Poetics''	35	(1)
Aristotle
The Elements of Drama	36	(10)
Forum: ``General Considerations of Theatrical Entertainment in China''	37	(9)
Tao-Ching Hsu
The Principal Genres of Drama	46	(15)
Spotlight: Melodrama and Farce	54	(2)
Forum: ``From `The Mythos of Spring: Comedy'''	56	(5)
Northrop Frye
Styles and Conventions	61	(6)
From the Page to the Stage: Theater Artists at Work	67	(36)
Choices	67	(1)
The Actor	67	(5)
Forum: ``When Acting Is An Art''	70	(2)
Constantin Stanislavsky
The Playwright	72	(8)
Forum: ``Some Thoughts on Playwriting''	75	(5)
Thornton Wilder
The Director	80	(9)
Forum: ``Julie Taymor on Directing the Lion King''	82	(7)
The Designer	89	(11)
Forum: ``Designing a Play: Death of a Salesman''	96	(4)
Jo Mielziner
The Critic	100	(3)
PART II: An Anthology of the World's Drama	103	(1656)
The Theater of Greece and Rome	105	(146)
Greece	106	(2)
The Origins of the Theater in Greece	108	(2)
Spotlight: The Hellenistic Theater	110	(1)
The Greek Mind	110	(1)
Playwrights and Acting	111	(4)
Spotlight: The Conventions of Greek Theater	112	(3)
Prometheus Bound	115	(17)
Aeschylus
Oedipus the King	132	(30)
Sophocles
Spotlight: The Curse on the House of Thebes	133	(24)
Center Stage: The First Performance of Oedipus the King	157	(2)
Center Stage: Oedipus the King at the Teatro Olympico, 1585	159	(1)
Forums: ``Ode to Oedipus''	160	(1)
Tyrone Guthrie
``Guthrie Directs `Ritual' Performance of Oedipus Rex at Edinburgh Fete''	161	(1)
Patrick Gibbs
Medea	162	(25)
Euripides
Lysistrata	187	(27)
Aristophanes
Spotlight: Greek Old Comedy	213	(1)
Rome	214	(2)
The Development of Roman Theater	216	(1)
Playwrights and Popular Entertainments	216	(1)
Theaters and Acting	217	(1)
The Fall of Rome	218	(1)
Brothers	219	(32)
Terence
Forum: ``The Art of Poetry'' (Ars Poetica)	245	(6)
Horace
The Theater of India, China, and Japan	251	(156)
India	254	(2)
The Origins of Indian Drama	256	(4)
Forum: ``From The Natyasastra''	257	(3)
Bharata
The Types of Indian Drama	260	(1)
The Conventions of Classical Indian Theater	260	(1)
Dance and Folk Drama in India	261	(1)
The Modern Theater of India	262	(1)
The Recognition of Sakuntala	263	(44)
Kalidasa
The Post Office	307	(15)
Rabindranath Tagore
Forum: ``The Formal Characteristics of [Indian] Folk Theater''	319	(3)
Jacob Srampickal
China	322	(2)
The History of Chinese Theatre	324	(5)
Center Stage: A Night at the Chinese Opera: The Hua-Gu Opera of Hunan	327	(2)
The Conventions of Chinese Theater	329	(4)
Autumn in the Palace of Han	333	(13)
Ma Chih-yuan
The Qing Ding Pearl	346	(12)
Anonymous
Forum: ``The World of Chinese Drama''	354	(4)
Tao-Ching Hsu
Japan	358	(2)
The Noh Theater	360	(7)
Forum: ``Style and the Flower'' From The Kadensho	362	(4)
Zeami
Forum: ``House and Family'' [Suzuki on the Noh Theater]	366	(1)
Tadashi Suzuki
The Kabuki Theater	367	(5)
The Contemporary Japanese Theater: Shingeki	372	(2)
Komachi at Sekidera	374	(10)
Zeami
Center Stage: The Tanabata Festival of Japan	382	(2)
Kanjincho	384	(12)
Namiki Gohei III
The Man Who Turned into a Stick	396	(11)
Kobo Abe
The Early Modern Theater	407	(348)
The Middle Ages	408	(2)
Rites and Folk Drama	410	(1)
Religious Drama	410	(1)
Performance Conventions	411	(4)
The Brome Play of Abraham and Isaac	415	(8)
Anonymous
Three Morality Plays	423	(1)
Everyman	423	(2)
Anonymous
Mankind	425	(1)
Anonymous
The Apple Tree	425	(35)
Anonymous
The European Renaissance	460	(2)
The Renaissance Mind	462	(4)
Center Stage: Commedia Dell'arte	463	(2)
Center Stage: Native American Performance	465	(1)
The Need for Order	466	(3)
Center Stage: The Masque	467	(2)
Hierarchies Onstage and Off	469	(1)
The Role of Tragedy	470	(1)
Playhouses and Scenery	470	(1)
Acting	471	(1)
Playwriting: The Neoclassicists versus the Romantics	471	(5)
England	474	(2)
A Midsummer Night's Dream	476	(47)
William Shakespeare
Spotlight: Making Shakespeare's Language User-Friendly	481	(33)
Center Stage: The Midsummer Festivals of Europe	514	(1)
Center Stage: A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Globe Theatre	515	(3)
Forums [Four Reviews]: ``A Midsummer Night's Dream in 1853''	518	(1)
``A Review of a Midsummer Night's Dream''	519	(1)
Robert Speight
``Moonbeams and Menaces''	520	(1)
William A. Henry III
``Shakespeare as Carnival in Amazonean `Dream'''	521	(2)
Mel Gussow
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark	523	(65)
William Shakespeare
Spotlight: Shakespeare's Two Theaters	584	(2)
Spain and the Americas	586	(2)
Life's A Dream	588	(32)
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Spotlight: The Spanish Theater: The Corrales	617	(1)
Center Stage: Theater in Mesoamerica	617	(3)
The Divine Narcissus	620	(14)
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
Center Stage: The Yaqui Easter of the Southwest United States	629	(3)
France	632	(2)
Tartuffe	634	(38)
Moliere
Spotlight: The French Theater	666	(1)
Center Stage: The (Third) Opening Night of Tartuffe	666	(2)
Center Stage: Tartuffe at the Theatre du Soleil, 1995	668	(2)
Spotlight: The Secret Life of a Con Man: Antony Sher on Playing Tartuffe (An Interview By Francesca Simon)	670	(2)
The Late-Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries	672	(5)
Spotlight: The Comedy of Manners	674	(2)
Spotlight: The Conventions of the Restoration Theater	676	(1)
Sentimental Comedy	677	(2)
Forum: ``A Comparison Between Sentimental and Laughing Comedy''	678	(1)
Oliver Goldsmith
Laughing Comedy	679	(1)
Bourgeois Tragedy	679	(3)
Forum: ``Dedication to the London Merchant''	680	(2)
George Lillo
The Rover	682	(42)
Aphra Behn
She Stoops to Conquer	724	(31)
Oliver Goldsmith
The Modern Theater	755	(494)
Romanticism	756	(2)
The Melodrama	758	(1)
The Romantic Revolution and Hernani	759	(2)
Hernani	761	(33)
Victor Hugo
Uncle Tom's Cabin	794	(38)
George Aikin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Spotlight: The Minstrel Show	828	(1)
Forums: ``A Critique of Uncle Tom's Cabin''	829	(1)
James Gordon Bennett
``'The Prologue' From The World's Greatest Hit: Uncle Tom's Cabin''	830	(2)
Harry Birdoff
Realism and Naturalism	832	(2)
The Well-Made Play	834	(1)
Influences on Realism	834	(2)
The Problem Play	836	(1)
The Rise of the Director	836	(5)
Forum: ``The Sociology of Modern Drama''	837	(4)
George Lukacs
Naturalism	841	(1)
The Fathers of Realism: Ibsen, Strindberg, and Chekhov	842	(1)
Intimate Theaters	843	(1)
The Second Generation of Realists	844	(1)
Social Drama in Asia and Latin America	845	(6)
Forum: ``The Theater of Revolt''	846	(5)
Robert Brustein
A Doll's House	851	(32)
Henrik Ibsen
Hedda Gabler	883	(34)
Henrik Ibsen
Miss Julie	917	(25)
August Strindberg
The Cherry Orchard	942	(24)
Anton Chekhov
Riders to the Sea	966	(8)
John Millington Synge
Center Stage: The Dingle Boys of Kerry	973	(1)
The Importance of Being Earnest	974	(27)
Oscar Wilde
Major Barbara	1001	(55)
[George] Bernard Shaw
Trifles	1056	(8)
Susan Glaspell
The Glass Menagerie	1064	(30)
Tennessee Williams
Forum: ``Production Notes''	1092	(2)
Tennessee Williams
Expressionism and the Epic Theater	1094	(2)
Expressionism	1096	(1)
The Epic Theater	1096	(3)
The Hairy Ape	1099	(22)
Eugene O'Neill
Spotlight: Theater in the Industrial Age	1120	(1)
The Good Woman of Setzuan	1121	(38)
Bertolt Brecht
Forum: ``Alienation Effects in Chinese Acting''	1155	(4)
Bertolt Brecht
Death of a Salesman	1159	(47)
Arthur Miller
Forum: ``Tragedy and The Common Man''	1200	(1)
Arthur Miller
Forums [Three Reviews] ``Death of a Salesman: Powerful Tragedy''	1201	(1)
William Hawkins
``Even as You and I''	1202	(2)
John Mason Brown
``Willy Loman Gets China Territory''	1204	(2)
Christopher S. Wren
Absurdism	1206	(5)
Spotlight: Waiting for Godot: The Modern Masterpiece	1209	(2)
The American Dream	1211	(23)
Edward Albee
Forum: ``The Significance of the Absurd''	1228	(6)
Martin Esslin
Rockaby	1234	(6)
Samuel Beckett
The Man Who Turned into a Dog	1240	(9)
Osvaldo Dragun
Spotlight: Popular Theater in Latin America	1246	(3)
The Theater of Africa and the African Diaspora	1249	(204)
Africa	1250	(2)
The Roots of African Theater	1252	(1)
Postcolonial Drama in Africa	1253	(2)
The Conventions of African Theater	1255	(1)
Woza Albert!	1256	(22)
Percy Mtwa
Mbongeni Ngema
Barney Simon
Center Stage: South African Township Theater	1276	(2)
``Master Harold'' ... and the Boys	1278	(23)
Athol Fugard
Spotlight: South Africa's Market Theatre and the Independent Theater Phenomenon	1300	(1)
Death and the King's Horseman	1301	(33)
Wole Soyinka
Center Stage: Yoruban Obatala Festival in Ede, Nigeria, West Africa	1329	(2)
Forum: ``The Fourth Stage: Through the Mysteries of Ogun to the Origin of Yoruba Tragedy''	1331	(3)
Wole Soyinka
African American Theater	1334	(4)
A Raisin in the Sun	1338	(37)
Lorraine Hansberry
``The Last Mama-on-the-Couch Play'' From the Colored Museum	1375	(4)
George C. Wolfe
Slave Ship	1379	(9)
Amiri Baraka
Everett LeRoi Jones
Forum: ``The Revolutionary Theatre''	1386	(2)
Amiri Baraka
Fences	1388	(32)
August Wilson
The Caribbean	1420	(3)
Cuba	1423	(1)
Puerto Rico	1423	(1)
Haiti and Jamaica	1424	(1)
Trinidad-Tobago	1424	(2)
Ti-Jean and His Brothers	1426	(27)
Derek Walcott
Center Stage: The Trinidad Carnival	1450	(3)
The Contemporary Theater	1453	(306)
Influences on Contemporary Thought	1453	(2)
Postmodernism and the Theater	1455	(1)
Artaud and the Theater of Cruelty	1456	(1)
Theater Collectives and Alternative Theater	1457	(2)
Contemporary Playwriting	1459	(1)
Acting in Contemporary Plays	1460	(1)
Contemporary Dramatic Criticism: Deconstructionism and Others	1461	(3)
The Contemporary Western World	1464	(2)
Six Characters in Search of an Author	1466	(26)
Luigi Pirandello
Latin America	1492	(2)
A Solid Home	1494	(10)
Elena Garro
Center Stage: Dia de Los Muertos in Mexico	1502	(2)
No Saco Nada de la Escuela	1504	(15)
Luis Valdez
Forum: ``From Theatre of the Oppressed''	1515	(4)
Augusto Boal
Paper Flowers	1519	(28)
Egon Wolff
Forum: ``The Popular Theater: Historic and Idealogical Considerations''	1544	(3)
Domingo Piga T.
Medeaplay	1547	(6)
Heiner Muller
Forum: ``From The Theatre of Images''	1550	(3)
Bonnie Marranca
Buried Child	1553	(32)
Sam Shepard
The Dance and the Railroad	1585	(15)
David Henry Hwang
Top Girls	1600	(31)
Caryl Churchill
The Great Celestial Cow	1631	(24)
Sue Townsend
One for the Road	1655	(9)
Harold Pinter
Mud	1664	(17)
Maria Irene Fornes
Forum: ``From Acting Out: Feminist Performances''	1678	(3)
Linda Hart
Peggy Phelan
Personal Effects	1681	(8)
Griselda Gambaro
Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches	1689	(36)
Tony Kushner
From Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992	1725	(34)
Anna Deavere Smith
Forum: ``The Boys Don't Count: Or Why Won't Shakespeare Put His Men in Dresses?''	1754	(5)
Lynn M. Thompson
APPENDIX A: The Student as Critic	1759	(7)
The Production Review	1759	(2)
Critical Essays	1761	(2)
A Few Technical Notes	1763	(1)
General Questions About a Play and Its Performance	1764	(1)
A Sample Outline for a Critical Essay on Ti-Jean and His Brothers	1764	(2)
APPENDIX B: Glossary of Terms	1766	(13)
APPENDIX C: Bibliography	1779	(8)
Acknowledgments	1787	(4)
Photo Credits	1791	(2)
Index	1793