Drama: A Pocket Anthology, 5th edition

Published by Pearson (September 26, 2014) © 2015

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Title overview

The perfect alternative to lengthy drama anthologies, this brief, affordable collection of widely taught and influential plays provides a concise but comprehensive introduction to the study of drama.

 

In keeping with the objectives of the series, Drama: A Pocket Anthology offers a range of widely admired plays, from classical to contemporary, in a quality trade-format book at an affordable price.  The fourth edition features The God of Carnage, a Tony-award winning play by Yazmina Reza, along with a Shakespeare comedy, Twelfth Night, for the first time.



Table of contents

Preface
Introduction

The Play’s the Thing
Origins of Drama
Aristotle on Tragedy
Plot
Characterization
Theme
Diction
Melody
Spectacle
Brief History and Description of Dramatic Conventions

Writing About Drama

DRAMA

Sophocles
Antigone, translated by Robert Fagles
William Shakespeare
Twelfth Night; or, What You Will, edited by David Bevington
Henrik Ibsen
An Enemy of the People, adapted by Arthur Miller
Susan Glaspell
Trifles

Tennessee Williams
The Glass Menagerie
Edward Albee
The Sandbox
Athol Fugard
“Master Harold” . . . and the boys

August Wilson
The Piano Lesson
David Ives
Sure Thing
Milcha Sanchez-Scott
The Cuban Swimmer
Yasmina Reza
The God of Carnage, translated by Christopher Hampton

Acknowledgments

Index of Critical Terms

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