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Title:
The Norton anthology of drama / [edited by] J. Ellen Gainor, Stanton B. Garner Jr., Martin Puchner.
Author:
Gainor, J. Ellen, editor.

Garner, Stanton B., 1955- editor.

Puchner, Martin, 1969- editor.
Publication Information:
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2014]
Call Number:
PN6112 .N67 2014 V.1
Edition:
Second edition.
ISBN:
9780393923414

9780393921519

9780393921526
Physical Description:
2 volumes ; 24 cm
Subject Term:
Contents:
Volume 1. Antiquity through the eighteenth century -- volume 2. The nineteenth century to the present.

v. 1. 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 -- Agamemnon (458 B.C.E.) / Aeschylus -- Oedipus the King (ca. 430-425 B.C.E.) ; Antigone (ca. 442 B.C.E.) / Sophocles -- Medea (431 B.C.E.) ; The Bacchae (406 B.C.E.) / Euripides -- Lysistrata (411 B.C.E.) / Aristophanes -- Pseudolus (191 B.C.E.) / Titus Maccius Plautus -- Thyestes (ca. 60 C.E.) / Lucius Annaeus Seneca -- The little clay cart (ca. 100-300) / Shudraka -- The 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 -- The second shepherd's play (ca. 1475) / The Wakefield Master -- Everyman (ca. 1510) / Anonymous -- The Spanish tragedy (1587) / Thomas Kyd -- The tragical history of Doctor Faustus (ca. 1588) / Christopher Marlowe -- Hamlet (1600-1601) ; Twelfth Night, or, What you will (1600-1601) / William Shakespeare -- Volpone (1606) / Ben Jonson -- The Duchess of Malfi (1631-14) / John Webster -- Fuenteovejuna (ca. 1614) / Lope de Vega Carpio -- Life is a dream (1636) / Pedro Calderón de la Barca -- Tartuffe (1664-69) / Molière (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin) -- The country wife (1675) / William Wycherley -- The Rover (1677) / Aphra Behn -- Phèdre (1677) / Jean Racine -- Loa for The auto sacramental of the divine Narcissus: an allegory (ca. 1690) / Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz -- The London merchant (1731) / George Lillo -- The school for scandal (1777) / Richard Brinsley Sheridan -- Faust, Part 1 (1808) / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

v. 2. 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 -- Woyzeck (1836) / Georg Buchner -- Escape, or, a leap for freedom (1858) / William Wells Brown -- Miss Julie (1888) / August Strindberg -- A doll house (1879) ; Hedda Gabler (1891) / Henrik Ibsen -- Importance of being Earnest (1895) / Oscar Wilde -- Ubu the King (1896) / Alfred Jarry -- Cherry orchard (1904) / Anton Chekhov -- Riders to the sea (1904) / John Millington Synge -- Pygmalion (1913) / George Bernard Shaw -- Trifles (1916) / Susan Glaspell -- Six characters in search of an author (1921) / Luigi Pirandello -- Machinal (1928) / Sophie Treadwell -- Soul gone home (1936) / Langston Hughes -- House of Bernarda Alba (1936) / Federico García Lorca -- Good woman of Setzuan (1938-40) / Bertolt Brecht -- Long day's journey into night (1941) / Eugene O'Neill -- Maids (1947) / Jean Genet -- 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 -- Sea at Dauphin (1954) / Derek Walcott -- Homecoming (1964) / Harold Pinter -- Death and the king's horseman (1975) / Wole Soyinka -- Buried child (1978) / Sam Shepard -- Cloud nine (1979) / Caryl Churchill -- "Master Harold" ... and the boys (1982) / Athol Fugard -- Mud (1983) / Maria Irene Fornes -- Glengarry Glen Ross (1983) / David Mamet -- 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 -- Goat (2002) / Edward Albee.
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