The Wadsworth Anthology of Drama

by Worthen, W. B.

• ISBN13: 9781413017670
• ISBN10: 1413017673
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-01-13
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

Known through four 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. In its fifth edition, THE WADSWORTH ANTHOLOGY OF DRAMA broadens its scope to offer even more plays than ever before.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Introduction: Drama, Theater, and Culture	1	(1)
Reading Drama and Seeing Theater	1	(2)
Drama and Theater in History	3	(2)
Dramatic Genres	5	(1)
Dramatic Form	6	(1)
The Stage in Critical Practice	7	(1)
Interpreting the Material Past	7	(2)
Unit I Classical Athens	9	(128)
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 Drama in Performance History	17	(1)
Aside Roman Drama and Theater	18	(2)
Reading the Material Theater	20	(117)
Aeschylus The Oresteia	23	(1)
Agamemnon	23	(20)
The Libation Bearers	43	(14)
The Eumenides	57	(12)
Sophocles Oedipus the King	69	(20)
Euripides Medea	89	(16)
Aristophanes Lysistrata	105	(18)
Critical Contexts
Aristotle, from The Poetics	123	(9)
Critical Perspectives
Sue-Ellen Case, from ``Classic Drag: The Greek Creation of Female Parts''	132	(5)
Unit II Classical Japan	137	(68)
The Development of Noh Theater	141	(3)
The Development of Doll Theater	144	(2)
The Development of Kabuki Theater	146	(3)
Classical Japanese Drama in Performance History	149	(1)
Aside Sanskrit Drama and Theater	150	(4)
Reading the Material Theater	154	(51)
Kan'ami Kiyotsugu Matsukaze	155	(7)
Nakamura Matagoro II and James R. Brandon, adaptors Chushingura: The Forty-Seven Samurai	162	(20)
Critical Contexts
Zeami Motokiyo, from ``A Mirror Held to the Flower''	182	(10)
Critical Perspectives
Graham Ley, ``Aristotle's Poetics, Bharatamuni's Natyasastra, and Zeami's Treatises: Theory as Discourse''	192	(13)
Unit III Medieval and Renaissance England	205	(166)
Drama and Theater in Medieval England	207	(3)
Staging Medieval Drama	210	(3)
Drama and Theater in Renaissance London	213	(1)
The Professional Theater and Its Society	213	(5)
Aside Shakespeare's Globe	218	(2)
Drama and Performance	220	(1)
Women in Drama and Performance	221	(1)
Aside The Jacobean Court Masque	222	(3)
Medieval and Renaissance Drama in Performance and History	225	(5)
Reading the Material Theater	230	(141)
Anonymous The Wakefield Second Shepherds' Pageant	232	(12)
Anonymous Everyman	244	(11)
Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus	255	(27)
William Shakespeare, Hamlet	282	(48)
The Tempest	330	(29)
Critical Contexts
Sir Philip Sidney, from Apology for Poetry	359	(2)
Critical Perspectives
Phyllis Rackin, ``Misogyny Is Everywhere''	361	(10)
Unit IV Early Modern Europe	371	(152)
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	(137)
Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Life Is a Dream	387	(27)
Moliere, Tartuffe	414	(30)
Jean Racine, Phaedra	444	(20)
Aphra Behn, The Rover	464	(35)
Sor Juana Ines 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)
Critical Perspectives
Katharine Eisaman Maus, from ``'Playhouse Flesh and Blood': Sexual Ideology and the Restoration Actress''	518	(5)
Unit V Modern Europe	523	(446)
Theater and Culture to 1950	525	(7)
Aside Melodrama	532	(3)
Theater and Culture Since 1950	535	(5)
Modern European Drama in Performance and History	540	(1)
Reading the Material Theater	541	(428)
Henrik Ibsen, A Doll House	545	(27)
August Strindberg, Miss Julie	572	(24)
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest	596	(22)
Minna Canth, Anna-Liisa	618	(26)
Anton Chekov, The Cherry Orchard	644	(24)
Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara	668	(34)
Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author	702	(23)
Bertolt Brecht, Mother Courage and Her Children	725	(29)
Jean Genet, The Balcony	754	(32)
Samuel Beckett, Endgame	786	(24)
Harold Pinter, The Homecoming	810	(26)
Heiner Muller, Hamletmachine	836	(6)
Caryl Churchill, Cloud Nine	842	(29)
Sarah Kane, Blasted	871	(17)
David Hare, Stuff Happens	888	(36)
Critical Contexts
Friedrich Nietzsche, from The Birth of Tragedy	924	(3)
Emile Zola, from Naturalism in the Theatre	927	(6)
Constantin Stanislavski, ``Direction and Acting''	933	(5)
Bertolt Brecht, ``Theatre for Pleasure or Theatre for Instruction''	938	(3)
Antonin Artaud, from The Theater and Its Double	941	(6)
Augusto Boal, from Theatre of the Oppressed	947	(6)
Performance in History
Martin Esslin, from The Theatre of the Absurd	953	(3)
Fredric Jameson, from ``Postmodernism and Consumer Society''	956	(3)
Una Chaudhuri, from Staging Place: The Geography of Modern Drama	959	(10)
Unit VI The United States	969	(344)
``The'' American Theater?	971	(1)
European Influence and American Innovation	972	(2)
Postwar Experiments	974	(1)
African-American Drama and Theater	975	(1)
Aside The Federal Theater Project	976	(2)
Popular Theater and Mass Culture	978	(1)
American Drama in Performance and History	979	(1)
Aside Performance Art	980	(2)
Reading the Material Theater Susan Glaspell, ``A Jury of Her Peers''	982	(331)
Dion Boucicault, The Octoroon	991	(22)
Susan Glaspell, Trifles	1013	(7)
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	(11)
Luis Valdez, Zoot Suit	1110	(27)
Sam Shepard, True West	1137	(22)
August Wilson, Fences	1159	(27)
David Henry Hwang, M. Butterfly	1186	(25)
Tony Kushner, Angels in America, Part 1: Millennium Approaches	1211	(31)
Anna Deavere Smith, Fires In the Mirror: Crown Heights, Brooklyn and Other Identities	1242	(31)
Suzan-Lori Parks, Topdog/Underdog	1273	(26)
Critical Contexts
Arthur Miller, from ``Tragedy and the Common Man''	1299	(2)
Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones, from ``The Revolutionary Theatre''	1301	(2)
Critical Perspectives
August Wilson, ``The Ground on Which I Stand'' / Robert Brustein, ``Subsidized Separatism''	1303	(10)
Unit VII World Stages	1313	(316)
A Global Theater?	1315	(1)
Postcolonial Perspectives	1316	(2)
Postcolonial Drama in Performance and History	1318	(22)
Analyzing Postcolonial Theater and Drama	1340	(2)
Reading the Material Theater	1342	(2)
Aside Intercultural Performance	1344	(285)
Aime Cesaire, A Tempest	1345	(17)
Griselda Gambaro, Information for Foreigners	1362	(21)
Wole Soyinka, Death and the King's Horseman	1383	(25)
Brian Friel, Translations	1408	(26)
Athol Fugard, ``Master Harold'' . . . and the boys	1434	(18)
Louis Nowra, The Golden Age	1452	(29)
Gao Xingjian, The Other Shore	1481	(16)
Vaclav Havel, Temptation	1497	(28)
Tomson Highway, Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing	1525	(29)
Manjula Padmanabhan, Harvest	1554	(32)
Vassily Sigarev, Black Milk	1586	(19)
Critical Contexts
Frantz Fanon, ``The Fact of Blackness''	1605	(11)
Critical Perspectives
Homi K. Bhabha, ``Of Mimicry and Man: The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse''	1616	(4)
Helen Gilbert and Joanne Tompkins, from Post-Colonial Drama	1620	(9)
Glossary	1629	(12)
Credits	1641	(8)
Index	1649