num_pages: 1731
description: With a distinctive emphasis on performance and a comprehensive selection of classic and contemporary plays — Stages of Drama truly engages students by presenting plays not only as texts on the page, but also as works that come to life on the stage.Contents:Reading and witnessing a playClassical theaterMedieval theaterRenaissance English theaterNeoclassical theaterModern theaterContemporary theaterIdeas of drama : classical to contemporary.The plays: Agamemnon / AeschylusOedipus Rex / SophoclesThe Bacchae / EuripidesLysistrata / AristophanesA funny thing happened on the way to the wedding (casina) / PlautusThe second shepherds' play / The Wakefield MasterEveryman / AnonymousThe tragical history of the life and death of Doctor Faustus / Christopher MarloweMuch ado about nothing ; The tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice / William ShakespeareVolpone, or The foxe / Ben JonsonThe misanthrope / MolièreThe rover / Aphra BehnThe school for scandal / Richard Brinsley SheridanWoyzeck / Georg BüchnerA doll's house / Henrik IbsenMiss Julie / August StrindbergThe importance of being Earnest / Oscar WildeIn the shadow of the glen / John Millington SyngeThe cherry orchard / Anton ChekhovPygmalion / Bernard ShawSix characters in search of an author / Luigi PirandelloHomecoming / Eugene O'NeillThe house of Bernarda Alba / Federico García LorcaGalileo / Bertolt BrechtDeath of a salesman / Arthur MillerCat on a hot tin roof / Tennessee WilliamsThe lesson / Eugène IonescoEndgame / Samuel BeckettThe zoo story / Edward AlbeeA raisin in the sun / Lorraine HansberryDutchman / Amiri BarakaLandscape / Harold PinterAbsurd person singular / Alan AyckbournDeath and the King's horseman / Wole SoyinkaPantomime / Derek WalcottTranslations / Brian Friel"Master Harold" and the boys / Athol FugardTop girls / Caryl Churchill'night mother / Marsha NormanFences / August WilsonM. Butterfly / David Henry Hwang
language: English
title: Stages of Drama: Classical to Contemporary Theater
titlecomplete: Stages of Drama: Classical to Contemporary Theater
genres: Theatre, Drama, Plays, Anthologies, Reference
ratings_count: 77
publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's