The Chief European Dramatists: Twenty-one Plays From The Drama Of Greece, Rome, Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Denmark, And Norway From 500 B.c. To 1879 A.d.

by Matthews, Brander

• ISBN13: 9781410214546
• ISBN10: 1410214540
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-06-30
• Publisher: Lightning Source Inc

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION	ix
AGAMEMNON
Æsehylus	1	(30)
Translated by E.D.A. Morshead
CEDIPUS THE KING
Sophocles	31	(24)
Translated by Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb
MEDEA
Euripides	55	(30)
Translated by Gilbert Murray
THE FROGS
Aristophanes	85	(30)
Translated by J. Hookham Frere
THE CAPTIVES
Plautus	115	(24)
Translated by Edward H. Sugden
PHORMIO
Terence	139	(28)
Translated by Morris H. Morgan
THE STAR OF SEVILLE
Lope de Vega	167	(26)
Translated by Philip M. Hayden
LIFE IS A DREAM
Calderon	193	(40)
Translated by Denis Florence Mac-Carthy
THE CID
Corneille	233	(32)
Translated by Florence Kendrick Cooper
TARTUFFE
Molière	265	(36)
Translated by Curtis Hidden Page
PHÆDRA
Racine	301	(28)
Translated by Robert Bruce Boswell
THE BARBER OF SEVILLE
Beaumarchais	329	(30)
Translated by Arthur B. Myrick
HERNANI
Victor Hugo	359	(52)
Translated by Mrs. Newton Crosland
THE SON-IN-LAW OF M. POIRIER
Augier and Sandeau	411	(36)
Translated by Barrett H. Clark
THE OUTER EDGE OF SOCIETY
Alexandre Dumas fils	447	(56)
Translated by Barrett H. Clark
THE MISTRESS OF THE INN
Goldoni	503	(34)
Translated by Merle Pierson
MINNA VON BARNHELM
Lessing	537	(44)
Translated by Ernest Bell
GOETZ VON BERLICHINGEN
Goethe	581	(56)
Translated by Sir Walter Scott
WILLIAM TELL
Schiller	637	(62)
Translated by Sir Theodore Martin
RASMUS MONTANUS
Holberg	699	(28)
Translated by Oscar James Campbell and Frederic Schenck
A DOLLS HOUSE
Henrik Ibsen	727	(44)
Translated by William Archer
APPENDIX
I. NOTES ON THE AUTHORS	771	(7)
II. NOTES ON THE PLAYS	778	(6)
III. A READING LIST IN EUROPEAN DRAMATISTS	784