12 Plays : A Portable Anthology

by Gardner, Janet E.

• ISBN13: 9780312402099
• ISBN10: 0312402090
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-10-22
• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's

Summary

A dozen plays that instructors want to teach and students like to read are gathered in this portable and economical volume.

Author Biography

JANET E. GARDNER (Ph. D. University of Massachusetts, Amherst) is Associate Professor of English at University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth where she teaches courses in drama, British and world literature, and writing. She has published numerous articles, reviews, and chapters on contemporary drama, especially modern British drama and the work of Caryl Churchill. She has received several grants and awards for research into current teaching technologies, and is at work on a study of drama and theatre pedagogy.

Table of Contents

Preface	v
Sophocles
Oedipus Rex	1	(45)
Dudley Fitts
Robert Fitzgerald
Aristophanes
Lysistrata	46	(45)
Dudley Fitts
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark	91	(122)
William Shakespeare
A Doll House	213	(59)
Rolf Fjelde
Henrik Ibsen
The Cherry Orchard	272	(49)
Carol Rocamora
Anton Chekhov
Trifles	321	(13)
Susan Glaspell
The Glass Menagerie	334	(56)
Tennessee Williams
Death of a Salesman	390	(80)
Arthur Miller
Endgame	470	(63)
Samuel Beckett
Top Girls	533	(62)
Caryl Churchill
``Master Harold'' ... and the boys	595	(38)
Athol Fugard
The Piano Lesson	633	(72)
August Wilson
A Brief History of Western Theater	705	(6)
Biographical and Textual Notes	711	(12)
List of Selected Video Resources	723	(6)
Glossary of Dramatic and Critical Terms	729