The Wadsworth Anthology of Drama, Brief Edition

by Worthen, W. B.

• ISBN13: 9781413029185
• ISBN10: 1413029183
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-02-15
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

THE WADSWORTH ANTHOLOGY OF DRAMA, BRIEF EDITION offers you a bold and most distinguished introduction to drama packed with exciting plays usefully situated within their historical and cultural contexts.

Author Biography

W. B. Worthen is Professor and Chair of the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies at the University of California, Berkeley

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Introduction: Drama, Theater, and Culture	p. 1
Reading Drama and Seeing Theater	p. 1
Drama and Theater in History	p. 3
Dramatic Genres	p. 5
Dramatic Form	p. 6
The Stage in Critical Practice	p. 7
Interpreting the Material Past	p. 7
Classical Athens	p. 9
The City Dionysia	p. 11
The Theater of Dionysus	p. 12
Theater and Social Life	p. 13
Drama and Performance	p. 15
Women in the Athenian Theater	p. 16
Forms of Greek Drama	p. 16
Greek Drama in Performance History	p. 17
Aside: Roman Drama and Theater	p. 18
Reading the Material Theater	p. 20
Oedipus the King	p. 23
Medea	p. 43
Lysistrata	p. 59
Critical Contexts
from The Poetics	p. 77
Classical Japan	p. 87
The Development of Noh Theater	p. 91
The Development of Doll Theater	p. 94
The Development of Kabuki Theater	p. 96
Classical Japanese Drama in Performance History	p. 99
Aside: Sanskrit Drama and Theater	p. 100
Reading the Material Theater	p. 104
Matsukaze	p. 105
adaptors Chushingura: The Forty-Seven Samurai	p. 112
Critical Contexts
from "A Mirror Held to the Flower"	p. 132
Medieval and Renaissance England	p. 143
Drama and Theater in Medieval England	p. 145
Staging Medieval Drama	p. 148
Drama and Theater in Renaissance London	p. 151
The Professional Theater and Its Society	p. 151
Aside: Shakespeare's Globe	p. 156
Drama and Performance	p. 158
Women in Drama and Performance	p. 159
Aside: The Jacobean Court Masque	p. 160
Medieval and Renaissance Drama in Performance and History	p. 163
Reading the Material Theater	p. 168
Everyman	p. 170
Hamlet	p. 181
The Tempest	p. 229
Critical Contexts
from Apology for Poetry	p. 258
Early Modern Europe	p. 261
The Political Climate	p. 263
Theater in France, 1660-1700	p. 265
Theater in England, 1660-1737	p. 267
Theater in Spain's Golden Age, 1580-1680	p. 269
Dramatic Innovation in France, England, and Spain	p. 272
Aside: Commedia dell' Arte	p. 273
Neoclassicism, Drama, and Theater	p. 274
Early Modern Drama in Performance and History	p. 275
Reading the Material Theater	p. 276
Life Is a Dream	p. 277
Tartuffe	p. 304
The Rover	p. 334
Loa to The Divine Narcissus	p. 369
Critical Contexts
"Preface to Troilus and Cressida, Containing the Grounds of Criticism in Tragedy"	p. 378
Modern Europe	p. 389
Theater and Culture to 1950	p. 391
Aside: Melodrama	p. 398
Theater and Culture Since 1950	p. 401
Modern European Drama in Performance and History	p. 406
Reading the Material Theater	p. 407
A Doll House	p. 411
The Importance of Being Earnest	p. 438
The Cherry Orchard	p. 460
Major Barbara	p. 484
Mother Courage and Her Children	p. 518
Endgame	p. 547
Cloud Nine	p. 571
Blasted	p. 600
Critical Contexts
from The Birth of Tragedy	p. 617
from Naturalism in the Theatre	p. 620
"Direction and Acting"	p. 626
"Theatre for Pleasure or Theatre for Instruction"	p. 631
from The Theater and Its Double	p. 634
from Theatre of the Oppressed	p. 640
The United States	p. 647
"The" American Theater?	p. 649
European Influence and American Innovation	p. 650
Postwar Experiments	p. 652
African-American Drama and Theater	p. 653
Aside: The Federal Theater Project	p. 654
Popular Theater and Mass Culture	p. 656
American Drama in Performance and History	p. 657
Aside: Performance Art	p. 658
Reading the Material Theater: Susan Glaspell, "A Jury of Her Peers"	p. 680
Trifles	p. 669
The Glass Menagerie	p. 676
Death of a Salesman	p. 702
Zoot Suit	p. 737
Fences	p. 764
Angels in America, Part 1: Millennium Approaches	p. 791
Critical Contexts
from "Tragedy and the Common Man"	p. 822
from "The Revolutionary Theatre"	p. 824
World Stages	p. 827
A Global Theater?	p. 829
Postcolonial Perspectives	p. 830
Postcolonial Drama in Performance and History	p. 832
Analyzing Postcolonial Theater and Drama	p. 854
Reading the Material Theater	p. 856
Aside: Intercultural Performance	p. 858
Information for Foreigners	p. 859
Translations	p. 880
"Master Harold" ...and the boys	p. 906
Harvest	p. 924
Critical Contexts
from "The Fact of Blackness"	p. 956
Glossary	p. 967
Credits	p. 977
Index	p. 981
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