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Title:

The Norton anthology of drama / J. Ellen Gainor, Stanton B. Garner Jr., Martin Puchner.

Edition:

Shorter second edition.

Publisher:

W.W. Norton & Company,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

1880 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Subject:

Drama--Collections.

Other Authors:

Gainor, J. Ellen, editor.
Garner, Stanton B., 1955- editor.
Puchner, Martin, 1969- editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Drama and theater -- 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.
(1994) / America play (ca. 430-425 B.C.E.) / Suzan-Lori Parks. Medea (431 B.C.E.) / Euripides -- Lysistrata (411 B.C.E.) / Aristophanes -- Martyrdom of the Holy Virgins Agape, Chionia, and Hirena (Dulcitius) (ca. 975) / Hrotsvit of Gandersheim -- Snow in Midsummer (13th century) / Guan Hanqing -- Atsumori (ca. 1400) / Zeami Motokiyo -- Second Shepherd's Play (ca. 1475) / Wakefield Master -- Everyman (ca. 1510) / Anonymous -- Tragical History of Doctor Faustus (ca. 1588) / Christopher Marlowe -- Hamlet (1600-1601) ; Twelfth Night, or, What you will (1600-1601) / William Shakespeare -- Tartuffe (1664) / Molière (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin) -- Rover (1677) / Aphra Behn -- Miss Julie (1888) / August Strindberg -- Doll House (1879) / Henrik Ibsen -- Importance of being Earnest (1895) / Oscar Wilde -- Cherry Orchard (1904) / Anton Chekhov -- Pygmalion (1913) / George Bernard Shaw -- Trifles (1916) / Susan Glaspell -- Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921) / Luigi Pirandello -- Machinal (1928) / Sophie Treadwell -- Good Woman of Setzuan (1938-40) / Bertolt Brecht -- Long Day's Journey into Night (1941) / Eugene O'Neill -- Streetcar Named Desire (1947) / Tennessee Williams -- Death of a Salesman (1949) / Arthur Miller -- Song of death (1950) / Tawfiq Al-Hakim -- Waiting for Godot (1953) / Samuel Beckett -- 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 -- M. Butterfly (1988) / David Henry Hwang -- Angels in America, Part I: Millennium Approaches (1991) / Tony Kushner -- Almighty Voice and His Wife (1991) / Daniel David Moses -- America play (1994) / Suzan-Lori Parks.

ISBN:

0393923401
9780393923407

Locations:

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)