World Drama, Volume 1 26 Unabridged Plays

by Clark, Barrett H.

• ISBN13: 9780486200576
• ISBN10: 0486200574
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-11-30
• Publisher: Dover Publications

Summary

Volume 1 of this two-volume set contains 26 plays including Aeschylus "Prometheus Bound"; Sophocles "Antigone"; Seneca "Medea"; Marlowe, "Dr. Faustus"; Heywood, "A Woman Killed with Kindness"; Johnson, "Every Man in His Humour"; Beaumont and Fletcher "The Maid's Tragedy"; Sheridan "The School for Scandal"; plus plays from the Orient, medieval plays and more.

Table of Contents

Ancient Greece (468-423 b.c.)
  Prometheus Bound Aeschylus
  Antigone Sophocles
  Alcestis Euripides
  The Clouds Aristophanes
Ancient Rome (200 b.c.-1st Century a.d.)
  The Captives Plautus
  Phormio Terence
  Medea Seneca
Ancient India (5th Century?)
  Sakoontala Kalidasa
China (13th or 14th Century?)
  The Chalk Circle Anonymous
Japan (14th-18th Centuries)
  Abstraction Anonymous
  Nakamitsu Seami
  Fair Ladies at a Game of Poem-Cards Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Medieval Europe (12th-16th Centuries)
  Adam Anonymous
  The Wise Virgins and the Foolish Virgins Anonymous
  The Second Shepherds' Play Anonymous
  The Farce of the Worthy Master Pierre Patelin Anonymous
  Everyman Anonymous
  The Wandering Scholar from Paradise Hans Sachs
England (13th Century?-1777)
  The Play of St. George Anonymous
  The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus Christopher Marlowe
  Every Man in His Humour Ben Jonson
  A Woman Killed with Kindness Thomas Heywood
  The Maid's Tragedy Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
  The Beaux-Stratagem George Farquhar
  She Stoops to Conquer Oliver Goldsmith
  The School for Scandal Richard Brinsley Sheridan