The Wadsworth Anthology of Drama

by Worthen, W. B.

• ISBN13: 9780838407509
• ISBN10: 0838407501
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-07-24
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

Known through three editions as the boldest and most distinguished introduction to drama, William Worthen's pace-setting text continues to provide exciting plays usefully situated within their historical and cultural contexts.

Table of Contents

Preface	iii
Introduction: Drama, Theater, and Culture	1	(8)
Reading Drama and Seeing Theater	1	(1)
Drama and Theater in History	1	(4)
Dramatic Genres	5	(1)
Dramatic Form	6	(1)
The Stage in Critical Practice	7	(1)
Reading the Material Theater	7	(2)
UNIT I Classical Athens	9	(114)
The City Dionysia	11	(1)
The Theater of Dionysus	12	(1)
Theater and Social Life	13	(2)
Drama and Performance	15	(1)
Women in the Athenian Theater	16	(1)
Forms of Greek Drama	16	(1)
Greek Performance in Performance History	17	(1)
ASIDE Roman Drama and Theater	18	(2)
READING THE MATERIAL THEATER	20	(77)
Aeschylus
Agamemnon	23	(20)
Sophocles
Oedipus the King	43	(20)
Euripides
Medea	63	(16)
Aristophanes
Lysistrata	79	(18)
CRITICAL CONTEXTS
Aristotle, from The Poetics	97	(9)
PERFORMANCE IN HISTORY
Sue-Ellen Case, from "Classic Drag: The Greek Creation of Female Parts"	106	(5)
Niall W. Slater, from "The Idea of the Actor"	111	(6)
AN ACTOR'S PERSPECTIVE
Interview with Fiona Shaw on Medea	117	(4)
PERFORMANCE REVIEW
Michael Billington, review of The Oresteia. Royal National Theatre (1981)	121	(2)
UNIT II Classical Japan	123	(74)
The Development of Noh Theater	127	(3)
The Development of Doll Theater	130	(2)
The Development of Kabuki Theater	132	(3)
Classical Japanese Drama in Performance History	135	(1)
ASIDE Sanskrit Drama and Theater	136	(4)
READING THE MATERIAL THEATER	140	(28)
Kan'ami
Kiyotsugu Matsukaze	141	(7)
Nakamura Matagoró II and James R. Brandon, adaptors
Chushingura: The Forty-Seven Samurai	148	(20)
CRITICAL CONTEXTS
Zeami Motokiyo, from "A Mirror Held to the Flower"	168	(10)
PERFORMANCE IN HISTORY
Graham Ley, "Aristotle's Poetics, Bharatamuni's Natyasastra, and Zeami's Treatises: Theory as Discourse"	178	(12)
A PLAYWRIGHT'S PERSPECTIVE
Zeauri Motokiyo, from Teachings on Style and the Flower	190	(6)
PERFORMANCE REVIEW
Sandra Schlanger, review of Chushingura: The Forty-Seven Samurai. University of Hawai'i (1979)	196	(1)
UNIT III Medieval and Renaissance England	197	(174)
Drama and Theater in Medieval England	199	(3)
Staging Medieval Drama	202	(3)
Drama and Theater in Renaissance London	205	(1)
The Professional Theater and Its Society	205	(5)
ASIDE Shakespeare's Globe	210	(2)
Drama and Performance	212	(1)
Women in Drama and Performance	213	(1)
ASIDE The Jacobean Court Masque	214	(3)
Medieval and Renaissance Drama in Performance and History	217	(5)
READING THE MATERIAL THEATER	222	(129)
Anonymous
The Wakefield Second Shepherds' Pageant	224	(12)
Anonymous
Everyman	236	(11)
Christopher Marlowe
Doctor Faustus	247	(27)
William Shakespeare
Hamlet	274	(48)
The Tempest	322	(29)
CRITICAL CONTEXTS
Sir Philip Sidney, from Apology for Poetry	351	(2)
PERFORMANCE IN HISTORY
Phyllis Backfin, "Misogyny is Everywhere"	353	(9)
AN ACTOR'S PERSPECTIVE
Michael Pennington, "Hamlet," from Players of Shakespeare	362	(6)
PERFORMANCE REVIEW
Mel Gussow, review of Hamlet, Directed by John Barton. Royal Shakespeare Company (1980)	368	(3)
UNIT IV Early Modern Europe	371	(158)
The Political Climate	373	(2)
Theater in France, 1660-1700	375	(2)
Theater in England, 1660-1737	377	(2)
Theater in Spain's Golden Age, 1580-1680	379	(3)
Dramatic Innovation in France, England, and Spain	382	(1)
ASIDE Commedia dell' Arte	383	(1)
Neoclassicism, Drama, and Theater	384	(1)
Early Modern Drama in Performance and History	385	(1)
READING THE MATERIAL THEATER	386	(122)
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Life Is a Dream	387	(27)
Molière
Tartuffe	414	(30)
Jean Racine
Phaedra	444	(20)
Aphra Behn
The Rover	464	(35)
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
Loa to The Divine Narcissus	499	(9)
CRITICAL CONTEXTS
John Dryden, "Preface to Troilus and Cressida, Containing the Grounds of Criticism in Tragedy"	508	(10)
PERFORMANCE IN HISTORY
Katharine Eisanlan Maus, from "'Playhouse Flesh and Blood': Sexual Ideology and the Restoration Actress"	518	(5)
AN ACTRESS'S PERSPECTIVE
Hippolite Clairon, from Memoirs of Hippolite Clairon, the Celebrated French Actress; With Reflections Upon the Dramatic Arts	523	(3)
PERFORMANCE REVIEW
Frank Rich, review of The Rover, Directed by John Rubinstein. The Williamstown Theatre (1987)	526	(3)
UNIT V Modern Europe	529	(420)
Theater and Culture to 1950	531	(7)
ASIDE Melodrama	538	(3)
Theater and Culture Since 1950	541
Modern European Drama in Performance and History	540	(1)
READING THE MATERIAL THEATER	541	(357)
Henrik Ibsen
A Doll House	551	(20)
August Strindberg
The Father	571	(26)
Anton Chekhov
The Cherry Orchard	597	(24)
Elizabeth Robins
Votes for Women!	621	(31)
Bernard Shaw
Major Barbara	652	(34)
Luigi Pirandello
Six Characters in Search of an Author	686	(23)
Bertolt Brecht
Mother Courage and Her Children	709	(29)
Samuel Beckett
Endgame	738	(24)
Harold Pinter
The Homecoming	762	(26)
Marguerite Duras
India Song	788	(28)
Heiner Müller
Hamletmachine	816	(6)
Caryl Churchill
Cloud Nine	822	(29)
David Edgar
Pentecost	851	(47)
CRITICAL CONTEXTS
Friedrich Nietzsche, from The Birth of Tragedy	898	(3)
Emile Zola, frons Naturalism in the Theatre	901	(6)
Martin Esslin, from The Theatre of the Absurd	907	(3)
Fredric Jameson, from "Postmodernism and Consumer Society"	910	(4)
PERFORMANCE IN HISTORY
Constantin Stanislavski,"Direction and Acting"	914	(5)
Bertolt Brecht, "Theatre for Pleasure or Theatre for Instruction"	919	(3)
Antonin Artand, front Tue Theater and Its Double	922	(6)
Una Chaudhari, from Staging Place: The Geography of Modern Drama	928	(10)
A DIRECTOR'S PERSPECTIVE
"A Director's Approach: An Interview with Peter Hall on his Production of The Homecoming"	938	(7)
PERFORMANCE REVIEW
Bernard Shaw, review of A Doll's House. Globe Theatre (1897)	945	(2)
Ben Brantley, review of A Doll's House. Belasco Theater (1997)	947	(2)
UNIT VI The United States	949	(390)
"The" American Theater?	951	(1)
European Influence and American Innovation	952	(2)
Postwar Experiments	954	(1)
African-American Drama and Theater	955	(1)
ASIDE The Federal Theater Project	956	(2)
Popular Theater and Mass Culture	958	(1)
American Drama in Performance and History	959	(1)
ASIDE Performance Art	960	(2)
READING THE MATERIAL THEATER	962	(356)
Dion Boucicault
The Octoroon	965	(22)
Susan Glaspell
Trifles	987	(7)
Angelina Weld Grimké
Rachel	994	(26)
Eugene O'Neill
The Hairy Ape	1020	(18)
Tennessee Williams
The Glass Menagerie	1038	(26)
Arthur Miller
Death of a Salesman	1064	(35)
Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones
Dutchman	1099	(12)
Luis Valdez and El Teatro Campesino
Los Vendidos	1111	(5)
Maria Irene Fornes
Fefu and Her Friends	1116	(17)
Sam Shepard
True West	1133	(22)
August Wilson
Fences	1155	(27)
David Henry Hwang
M. Butterfly	1182	(25)
Tony Kushner
Angels in America, Part 1: Millennium Approaches	1207	(31)
Anna Deavere Smith
Fires In the Mirror: Crown Heights, Brooklyn, and Other Identities	1238	(31)
Naomi Iizuka
36 Views	1269	(23)
Sutan-Lori Parks
Topdog/Underdog	1292	(26)
CRITICAL CONTEXTS
Arthur Miller, from "Tragedy and the Common Man"	1318	(2)
Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones, from "The Revolutionary Theatre"	1320	(2)
PERFORMANCE IN HISTORY
August Wilson, "The Ground on Which I Stand"	1322	(6)
Robert Brustein, "Subsidized Separatism"	1328	(3)
A DESIGNER'S PERSPECTIVE
Arnold Aronson, "Design for Angels in America: Envisioning the Millennium"	1331	(6)
PERFORMANCE REVIEW
Ben Bramley, review of Topdog/Underdog. Joseph Papp Public Theater (2001)	1337	(2)
UNIT VII World Stages	1339	(320)
A Global Theater?	1341	(1)
Postcolonial Perspectives	1342	(2)
Postcolonial Drama in Performance and History	1344	(19)
Analyzing Postcolonial Theater and Drama	1363	(2)
ASIDE Intercultural Performance	1365	(1)
READING THE MATERIAL THEATER	1366	(263)
Satoh Makoto
My Beatles	1368	(13)
Aimé Césaire
A Tempest	1381	(17)
Griselda Gambaro
Information for Foreigners	1398	(21)
Athol Fugard, John Kath, Winston Ntshona
The Island	1419	(13)
Wole Soyinka
Death and the King's Horseman	1432	(25)
Brian Friel
Translations	1457	(26)
Maishe Maponya
Gangsters	1483	(13)
Jack Davis
No Sugar	1496	(37)
Gao Xingjian
The Other Shore	1533	(16)
Tomson Highway
Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing	1549	(29)
Judith Thompson
Lion in the Streets	1578	(19)
Manjula Padmanabhan
Harvest	1597
CRITICAL CONTEXTS
Frantz Fanon, "The Fact of Blackness"	1629	(10)
Horri Bhabha, "Of Mimicry and Man: The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse"	1639	(5)
PERFORMANCE IN HISTORY
Gilbert and Joanne Tompkins, from Post-Colonial Drama	1644	(8)
A PLAYWRIGHT'S PERSPECTIVE
Athol Fugard, from Notebooks	1652	(5)
PERFORMANCE REVIEW
John Bernrose, review of Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing. Royal Alexandria Theatre (1991)	1657	(2)
Appendix: Writing About Drama and Theater	1659	(8)
Glossary	1667	(12)
Bibliography	1679	(20)
Appendix: Video, Film, and Sound Recordings of Plays	1699	(10)
Credits	1709	(4)
Index	1713