Anthology of Living Theater

by Wilson, Edwin; Goldfarb, Alvin

• ISBN13: 9780073514130
• ISBN10: 0073514136
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-12-13
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education

Summary

This anthology of 18 plays offers a convenient and affordable alternative to ordering individual play scripts, with the additional benefit of a general introduction and headnotes.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Introduction: How to Read a Play
Where and When the Play Takes Place: The Setting and Circumstances	xiv
Who the Participants Are: The Characters	xvi
What Kind of Play It Is: Categories and Genres	xvi
How the Play Unfolds: Action and Theme	xvii
The Play Begins	xvii
The Play Progresses	xviii
The Theme	xviii
The Conclusion	xix
AN ANTHOLOGY OF PLAYS
Sophocles, Antigone, trans, and ed. Peter D. Arnott	3	(22)
Aristophanes, Lysistrata, trans. Douglas parker	25	(52)
Plautus, The Menaechmus Brothers, trans. and ed. E. F. Watling	77	(26)
Abraham and Isaac, adapt, the editors	103	(10)
Kan'ami Kiyotsugu, Sotoba Komachi, trans. Arthur Waley	113	(6)
William Shakespeare, Hamlet, ed. and with notes by Tucker Brooke and Jack Randall Crawford	119	(64)
Moliere, Tartuffe, trans. Richard Wilbur	183	(32)
Susanna Centlivre, The Busy Body	215	(42)
Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House, trans. Eva Le Gallienne	257	(38)
Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard, trans. Constance Garnett	295	(28)
August Strindberg, A Dream Play, trans. Walter Johnson	323	(34)
Bertolt Brecht, The Good Woman of Setzuan, trans. Eric Bentley and Maja Apelman	357	(50)
Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof	407	(40)
Samuel Beckett, Krapp's Last Tape	447	(8)
Charles Ludlam, The Mystery of Irma Vep	455	(28)
August Wilson, Joe Turner's Come and Gone	483	(38)
Caryl Churchill, Far Away	521	(12)
John Leguizamo, Excerpts from Freak	533	(10)
Acknowledgments	543