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The Norton anthology of drama
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Publication Date
[2018]
Language
English
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From the Book - Shorter third edition.
Introduction. 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
The plays. Oedipus the King (ca. 430-425 B.C.E.) / Sophocles ; translated by Robert Fagles
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) / Molière (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.
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