Plays Onstage An Anthology

by Wainscott, Ronald J.; Fletcher, Kathy J.

• ISBN13: 9780205405749
• ISBN10: 0205405746
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-09-27
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

"Plays Onstage" features a diverse range of plays ranging from the Classical Greeks to the present, including many important plays rarely seen in anthologies. This new anthology includes twenty-one plays from a diverse group of playwrights. Both female and male playwrights are well-represented as well as plays from African-American, Hispanic, and Asian writers. Includes introductions for each play that provide significant information on the playwright, genre, structure and style, important elements of content, recommendations for further reading, and historical and cultural context, providing readers with a framework to interpret the play. Introductory theatre/drama.

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii
Antigone	1	(21)
Sophocles
Nicholas Rudall
Hagoromo	22	(7)
Zeami
Arthur Waley
The World and the Child	29	(16)
anonymous
Romeo and Juliet	45	(45)
William Shakespeare
Life Is a Dream	90	(36)
Calderon de la Barca
John Clifford
The Hypochondriac	126	(35)
Moliere
Martin Sorrell
The Country Wife	161	(53)
William Wycherley
Woyzeck	214	(17)
Georg Buchner
Carl Richard Mueller
The Poor of New York	231	(30)
Dion Boucicault
Ghosts	261	(34)
Henrik Ibsen
Rolf Fjelde
Trifles	295	(10)
Susan Glaspell
Color Struck: A Play in Four Scenes	305	(11)
Zora Neale Hurston
Machinal	316	(38)
Sophie Treadwell
Death of a Salesman	354	(49)
Arthur Miller
The Caucasian Chalk Circle	403	(43)
Bertolt Brecht
Eric Bentley
Act without Words I: A Mime for One Player	446	(5)
Samuel Beckett
The Conduct of Life	451	(16)
Maria Irene Fornes
The Piano Lesson	467	(45)
August Wilson
M. Butterfly	512	(36)
David Henry Hwang
Marisol	548	(27)
Jose Rivera
Venus	575	(50)
Suzan-Lori Parks
Index	625