Anthology of Living Theater

Edwin Wilson was educated at Vanderbilt, the University of Edinburgh and Yale. At the Yale Drama School he received his Master of Fine Arts Degree as well as the first Doctor of Fine Arts Degree awarded by Yale. He has taught theater at Yale, Vanderbilt, Hunter College, Hofstra, and currently directs the Center for Advanced Study in the Theater Arts at the CUNY Graduate Center. He was the theater critic for the Wall Street Journal for twenty years. He is the author of The Theater Experience and co-author with Alvin Goldfarb of the Anthology of Living Theater and Theater: The Lively Art, 4th edition. Alvin Goldfarb is President of Western Illinois University. He has twenty-five years of distinguished service as Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs as well as Professor of Theatre at Illinois State University. Dr. Goldfarb is a member of the Illinois Arts Council and has won service awards from the Illinois Alliance for Arts Education and American College Theatre Festival. He holds a Ph.D. in Theatre History from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the co-author with Edwin Wilson of the Anthology of Living Theater and Theater: The Lively Art.

How to Read a PlayWhere and When the Play Takes Place:The Setting and CircumstancesWho the Participants Are:The CharactersWhat Kind of Play It Is: Categories and GenresHow the Play Unfolds:Action and ThemeThe Play BeginsThe Play ProgressesThe ThemeThe ConclusionThe Anthology of PlaysSophocles, Antigone, trans: Peter D. ArnottPlautus, The Menaechmus Brothers, trans. and ed: E.F.Watling Abraham and Isaac adapted by the editorsKwanami Kiyotsugu, Sotoba Komachi, trans. Arthur WaleyWilliam Shakespeare, Hamlet, ed. and with notes by Tucker Brooke and Jack Randall CrawfordMoliere, Tartuffe, trans. Richard Wilbur Susanna Centlivre, The Busy BodyHenrik Ibsen, A Doll's House, trans. Eva Le GallienneAnton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard, trans. Constance GarnettAugust Strindberg, A Dream Play, trans. Walter JohnsonBertolt Brecht, The Good Woman of Setzuan trans. Eric Bentley and Maja ApelmanTennessee Williams, The Glass MenagerieSamuel Beckett, Krapp's Last TapeCharles Ludlam, The Mystery of Irma VepAugust Wilson, Joe Turner's Come and GoneCaryl Chuchill, Blue Heart John Leguizamo, Excerpts fromFreak