Includes bibliographical references (pages 1795-1812) and index.
Contents:
(2009) / Ruined A short history of theater. Greek theater -- Roman theater -- Classical Indian theater -- Classical Chinese theater -- Classical Japanese theater -- Medieval European theater -- Theater in early modern Europe, 1500-1700 -- English theater, 1576-1642 -- Spanish theater, 1580-1700 -- French theater, 1630-1700 -- English theater, 1660-1700 -- Eighteenth-century theater -- Romanticism and melodrama, 1800-1880 -- Modern theater, 1880-1945 -- Postwar theater, 1945-1970 -- Contemporary theater -- Reading drama, imagining theater -- The plays. Oedipus the King (ca. 430-425 B.C.E.) / Lynn Nottage. Critical perspective: from Poetics / Aristotle -- Medea (431 B.C.E.) / Euripides ; translated by Diane Arnson Svarlien -- Lysistrata (411 B.C.E.) / Aristophanes ; translated by Jeffrey Henderson -- The martyrdom of the holy virgins Agape, Chionia, and Hirena (Dulcitius) (ca. 975) / Hrotsvit of Gandersheim ; translated by Katharina M. Wilson -- Snow in midsummer (13th century) / Guan Hanqing ; translated by Yang Xianyi and Gladys Yang -- Atsumori (ca. 1400) / Zeami Motokiyo ; translated by Karen Brazell -- Critical perspective: from "A mirror held to the flower" / Zeami Motokiyo -- Everyman (ca. 1510) / anonymous -- Critical perspective: from The English morality play : origins, history, and influence of a dramatic tradition / Robert Potter -- Hamlet (1600-01) / William Shakespeare -- Twelfth night; or, What you will (1600-01) / William Shakespeare -- Critical perspective: from "Preface" to Dramatick works of William Shakespeare / Samuel Johnson -- Tartuffe (1664) / Moliè€re (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin) ; versification by Constance Congdon, from a translation by Virginia Scott -- Miss Julie (1888) / August Strindberg ; translated by Evert Sprinchorn -- A doll house (1879) / Henrik Ibsen ; translated by Brian Johnston and Rick Davis -- Critical perspective: from The quintessence of Ibsenism / George Bernard Shaw -- The importance of being Earnest / (1895) / Oscar Wilde -- The cherry orchard (1904) / Anton Chekhov ; translated by Paul Schmidt -- Trifles (1916) / Susan Glaspell -- Six characters in search of an author (1921) / Luigi Pirandello ; translated by Eric Bentley -- The hairy ape (1922) / Eugene O'Neill -- Machinal (1928) / Sophie Treadwell -- The good woman of Setzuan (1938-40) / Bertolt Brecht ; translated by Eric Bentley -- A streetcar named desire (1947) / Tennessee Williams -- Death of a salesman (1949) / Arthur Miller -- Critical perspective: from "Tragedy and the common man" / Arthur Miller -- Waiting for Godot (1953) / Samuel Beckett ; translated from the original French text by author -- Critical perspective: from The theater of the absurd / Martin Esslin -- A raisin in the sun (1959) / Lorraine Hansberry -- The homecoming (1964) / Harold Pinter -- Death and the king's horseman (1975) / Wole Soyinka -- Cloud nine (1979) / Caryl Churchill -- "MASTER HAROLD" ... and the boys (1982) / Athol Fugard -- Fences (1985) / August Wilson -- Critical perspective: from The ground on which I stand / August Wilson -- M. Butterfly (1988) / David Henry Hwang -- Angels in America, part I : Millennium approaches (1991) / Tony Kushner -- The America play (1994) / Suzan-Lori Parks -- How I learned to drive (1997) / Paula Vogel -- Ruined (2009) / Lynn Nottage.
Summary:
"Offers the most generous collection of major works (33 plays in all, 4 of which are new), the most carefully prepared introductions, annotations, and texts, and the handiest format of any drama anthology. The Shorter Third Edition introduces a new "critical perspective" feature that offers key texts in drama criticism and theory. This feature, coupled with the anthology's illustration program and especially its "plays in performance" insert, further deepens students' understanding of the relationship between plays on the page and performances on the stage"--. Provided by publisher.
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