Modern Drama: Selected Plays from 1879 to the Present / Edition 1

Modern Drama: Selected Plays from 1879 to the Present / Edition 1

by Walter Levy
ISBN-10:
0132267217
ISBN-13:
9780132267212
Pub. Date:
11/04/1998
Publisher:
Pearson
ISBN-10:
0132267217
ISBN-13:
9780132267212
Pub. Date:
11/04/1998
Publisher:
Pearson
Modern Drama: Selected Plays from 1879 to the Present / Edition 1

Modern Drama: Selected Plays from 1879 to the Present / Edition 1

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Overview

This comprehensive and balanced anthology offers a collection of 25 works of modern and contemporary drama from the 1870s through the early 1990s.

Features twenty-five plays that often demonstrate a significant breakthrough in maturity of expression and style for each playwright — important leaders in the development of modern and contemporary drama.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780132267212
Publisher: Pearson
Publication date: 11/04/1998
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 985
Product dimensions: 7.50(w) x 9.10(h) x 2.10(d)
Age Range: 16 Years

Table of Contents


PLAYS
Henrik Ibsen.

A Doll's House

August Strindberg.

Miss Julie

Oscar Wilde.

The Importance of Being Earnest

George Bernard Shaw.

Pygmalion

Anton Chekhov.

The Cherry Orchard

Luigi Pirandello.

Six Characters in Search of an Author

John Millington Synge.

The Playboy of the Western World

Susan Glaspell.

The Verge.

Eugene O'Neill.

Desire Under the Elms

Thornton Wilder.

Our Town

Bertold Brecht.

The Threepenny Opera

Lillian Hellman.

The Children's Hour

Samuel Beckett.

Endgame

Eugène Ionesco.

Rhinoceros

Tennessee Williams.

The Glass Menagerie

Arthur Miller.

All My Sons

Edward Albee.

The Zoo Story

Lorraine Hansberry.

A Raisin in the Sun

Harold Pinter.

The Birthday Party

Wole Soyinka.

The Lion and the Jewel

Tom Stoppard.

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Sam Shepard.

Buried Child

August Wilson.

The Piano Lesson

Marsha Norman.

'night Mother

Wendy Wasserstein.

The Sisters Rosensweig


DRAMA THEORY AND CRITICISM.
George Bernard Shaw.

The Technical Novelty of Ibsen's Plays.

August Strindberg.

Author's Preface toMiss Julie

Francis Fergusson.

From The Idea of a Theater

Luigi Pirandello.

Preface to Six Characters in Search of an Author

Karen Malpede.

Reflections on The Verge

Doris Alexander.

Desire Under the Elms.

Thornton Wilder.

Some Thoughts on Playwriting.

Bertolt Brecht.

Selected Writings on The Threepenny Opera

Martin Esslin.

Samuel Beckett: The Search for Self.

Eugène Ionesco.

FromNotes and Counter Notes: Writings on the Theatre

Geoffrey Borny.

The TwoGlass Menageries:Reading Edition and Acting Edition.

Arthur Miller.

Ibsen and the Drama of Today.

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

The Chitlin Circuit.

Katherine H. Burkman.

The Demeter Myth and Doubling in Marsha Norman's'night Mother

Chronology of Drama, History and Culture.Glossary.Credits.
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