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Drama

A Pocket Anthology (Penguin Academics Series)

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Buch | Softcover
624 Seiten
2005 | 3rd edition
Pearson (Verlag)
978-0-321-27722-0 (ISBN)
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The perfect alternative to lengthy drama anthologies, this brief, affordable collection of the discipline's most widely taught plays provides a concise, but complete, introduction to the study of drama.

In keeping with the objectives of the Penguin Academics series, Drama: A Pocket Anthology offers highly respected playwrights and a quality trade-format book at a very affordable price.  This expanded edition features five new selections—including plays by Paula Vogel and Athol Fugard—and a revised, updated section on “Writing about Drama.”

* indicate new selections.

 

Introduction.



The Play’s the Thing.

Origins of Drama.

Aristotle on Tragedy.

Plot.

Characterization.

Theme.

Diction.

Spectacle.

Brief History and Description of Dramatic Conventions.

Film Versions:  A Note.

Writing About Drama.

 

Drama.

Sophocles (496?-406 B. C.), Oedipus the King, trans. Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616), The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice.

Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906), A Doll House, trans. Rolfe Fjelde.

Susan Glaspell (1882-1948), Trifles.

*Tennessee Williams (1911-1983), The Glass Menagerie.

Arthur Miller (B. 1915), Death of a Salesman.

*Edward Albee, (B. 1928), The Sandbox.

*Athol Fugard (B. 1932), “Master Harold” . . . and the boys.

August Wilson (B. 1945), Fences.

David Ives (B. 1950), Sure Thing.

*Paula Vogel (b. 1951), How I Learned to Drive.

*Catherine Celesia Allen (B. ?), Anything for You.

Acknowledgements.

 

List of Critical Terms.

 

Erscheint lt. Verlag 22.9.2005
Sprache englisch
Maße 209 x 141 mm
Gewicht 703 g
Themenwelt Literatur Lyrik / Dramatik Dramatik / Theater
ISBN-10 0-321-27722-8 / 0321277228
ISBN-13 978-0-321-27722-0 / 9780321277220
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