The Bedford Introduction to Drama
, by Jacobus, Lee A.
- ISBN: 9781457606328 | 1457606321
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 9/14/2012
Offering a broad survey of drama from the ancient Greeks to the present — including many new contemporary prize-winners — The Bedford Introduction to Drama has the plays you want to teach in a collection flexible enough to serve your needs in a variety of courses. Fifty-four chronologically arranged plays are illuminated by insightful commentaries and casebooks that enrich students’ contextual understanding and encourage critical thinking. Concise introductions for each historical period and play emphasize theater design, staging, and acting style, and a wealth of photographs and illustrations help students visualize plays in performance. A fresh new design highlights the rich contextual features and additional help for students including a guide to writing about drama, a glossary, and new cross-references to a robust companion Web site.
Lee A. Jacobus is professor emeritus of English at the University of Connecticut and the author/editor of popular English and drama textbooks, among them the full and compact versions of The Bedford Introduction to Drama, Sixth Edition (Bedford/St. Martin's, 2009); and The Longman Anthology of American Drama. He has written scholarly books on Paradise Lost, on the works of John Cleveland, and on the works of Shakespeare, including Shakespeare and the Dialectic of Certainty. He is also a playwright and author of fiction. Two of his plays — Fair Warning and Long Division — were produced in New York by the American Theater of Actors, and Dance Therapy, three one-act plays, was produced in New York at Where Eagles Dare Theatre. He has recently written a book of short stories, Volcanic Jesus, which is set in Hawaii.
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CONTENTS
Preface for Instructors
INTRODUCTION: THINKING ABOUT DRAMA
What Is Drama?
Drama and Ritual
Drama: The Illusion of Reality
Seeing a Play Onstage
Theaters and Their Effect
Reading a Play
The Great Ages of Drama
Egyptian Drama
Greek Drama
Roman Drama
Medieval Drama
Renaissance Drama
Late Seventeeth- and Eighteenth-Century Drama
Nineteenth-Century Drama through the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Drama in the Early and Mid-Twentieth Century
Contemporary Drama
Genres of Drama
Tragedy
Comedy
Tragicomedy
Elements of Drama
Plot
Characterization
Setting Dialogue
Music
Movement
Theme
Lady Gregory, The Rising of the Moon
GREEK DRAMA
The Development of Greek Drama
The Greeks and Their Gods
The Greek Stage
The Greek Actor
Genres of Greek Drama
Tragedy
Satyr Plays
Comedy
The Great Age of Greek Drama
Greek Drama Timeline
Aeschylus, Agamemnon
Agamemnon in Performance
Commentary
Lois Spatz, Oresteia: Trilogy Preserved
Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
Oedipus Rex in Performance
Commentaries
Aristotle, Poetics: Comedy and Epic and Tragedy
Sigmund Freud, The Oedipus Complex
Claude Lévi-Strauss, From The Structural Study of Myth
Sophocles, Antigone
Antigone in Performance
Commentary
Oliver Taplin, Emotion and Meaning in Greek Tragedy
*Euripides, The Bacchae
*The Bacchae in Performance
*Commentary
Albrecht Dihle, The Bacchae
Aristophanes, Lysistrata
ROMAN DRAMA
Indigenous Sources
The Greek Influence
The Roman Stage
The Roman Actor
Roman Drama Timeline
Roman Dramatists
Plautus, Excerpt from The Twin Menaechmi (Act III)
Terence, Excerpt from The Brothers (Act V)
Seneca, Excerpt from Thyestes (Act V, Scene ii)
MEDIEVAL DRAMA
The Role of the Church
Miracle Plays
Mystery Plays
Morality Plays
Japanese Drama
The Medieval Stage
The Medieval Actor
Medieval Drama Timeline
Hrosvitha, Dulcitius
Dulcitius in Performance
Commentary
Sue-Ellen Case, Re-viewing Hrotsvit
Anonymous, Second Shepherd's Pageant
The Second Shepherd’s Pageant in Performance
Anonymous, Everyman
Everyman in Performance
RENAISSANCE DRAMA
The Italian Theater
Commedia dell’Arte
Elizabethan Drama
The Elizabethan Theater
The Elizabethan Actor
The Elizabethan Audience
Female Characters on the English Stage
The Masque
Spanish Drama
Renaissance Drama Timeline
Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus
Doctor Faustus in Performance
William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Performance
Commentaries
Linda Bamber, On A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Peter Brook, The Play Is the Message…
William Shakespeare, Hamlet
Hamlet in Performance
Commentaries
*A. C. Bradley, Hamlet’s Melancholy
T. S. Eliot, Hamlet and His Problems
*William Shakespeare, The Tempest
*The Tempest in Performance
*A Critical Casebook: The Tempest
*William Strachey, from True Repertory of the Wreck, 1610
*Michel de Montaigne, from Of Cannibals, 1580
*Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Ariel and Caliban, from The Lectures of 1811-1812, Lecture IX
*E. K. Chambers, The Tempest
*Robert Browning, Caliban Upon Setebos
*Aimé Césaire, from A Tempest
*Ania Loomba, Sycorax
*Marjorie Garber, The Tempest and Colonialism
Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Life Is a Dream
Life Is a Dream in Performance
Commentary
Ed Morales, Review of José Revera’s Production of Sueño
LATE SEVENTEENTH- AND EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY DRAMA
Theater on the Continent: Neoclassicism
French Tragedy
French Comedy: Molière
Theater in England: The Restoration
Restoration Comedy
Eighteenth-Century Drama
The Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Actor
Drama in Japan
Late Seventeenth- and Eighteenth Century Drama Timeline
Molière, Tartuffe
Tartuffe in Performance
Commentary
Mel Gussow, Review of Tartuffe
Aphra Behn, The Rover; Or, The Banished Cavaliers
The Rover in Performance
Commentary
Elaine Hobby, Courtship and Marriage in The Rover
Chikamatsu Monzaemon, The Love Suicides at Sonezaki
The Love Suicides at Sonezaki in Performance
Commentary
Donald H. Shively, The Development of Theater Buildings
William Congreve, The Way of the World
The Way of the World in Performance
Commentary
Arnold Aronson, Comedy, Manners, and Brickbats
*John Gay, The Beggar’s Opera
*The Beggar’s Opera in Performance
NINETEENTH-CENTURY DRAMA THROUGH THE TURN OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
The Nineteenth-Century Theater
The Nineteenth-Century Actor
Romantic Drama
Melodrama
The Well-Made Play
The Rise of Realism
Nineteenth-Century Drama Timeline
Henrik Ibsen, A Doll House
A Doll House in Performance
Commentary
Henrik Ibsen, Notes for the Modern Tragedy
Muriel C. Bradbrook, A Doll’s House: Ibsen the Moralist
August Strindberg, Miss Julie
Miss Julie in Performance
Commentary
August Strindberg, From the Preface to Miss Julie
A Stylistic Casebook: American Melodrama
Anna Cora Mowatt, Fashion, Act V
George Aiken, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Act VI
Bronson Howard, Shenandoah, Act III
Dion Boucicault, Notes on Acting
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
The Importance of Being Earnest in Performance
Commentary
Joseph Donohue, Interview with Sir Peter Hall, Director of The Importance of Being Earnest
Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard
The Cherry Orchard in Performance
Commentaries
Anton Chekhov, From Letters of Anton Chekhov
Peter Brook, On Chekhov
Bernard Shaw, Mrs. Warren's Profession
Mrs. Warren’s Profession in Performance
Commentaries
Bernard Shaw, Plays Unpleasant: Mrs. Warren’s Profession
Bernard Shaw, From the Preface to Mrs. Warren’s Profession
A Cultural Casebook: The "Woman Question" in the Late Nineteenth Century
John Stuart Mill, On the Subjection of Women
August Strindberg, The Woman Question: Women’s Rights
Johan Thorsten Sellin, Marriage and Divorce in Sweden
Richard Panofsky, A Nineteenth-Century Husband’s Letter to His Wife
Helen Watterson Moody, What It Means to Be a Wife
Flora Tristan, London Journal: Prostitutes in London ...All the Streets Are Full of Them
A Letter to the Times (London) from a Prostitute
Barbara Meil Hobson, Successful Madams
DRAMA IN THE EARLY AND MID-TWENTIETH CENTURY
The Heritage of Realism
Realism and Myth
Myth and Culture
Poetic Realism
Social Realism
Realism and Expressionism
Antirealism
Epic Theater
Absurdist Drama
The Early- and Mid-Twentieth-Century Stage
The Early- and Mid-Twentieth-Century Actor
Early- and Mid-Twentieth-Century Drama Timeline
John Millington Synge, Riders to the Sea
Riders to the Sea in Performance
Susan Glaspell, Trifles
Trifles in Performance
Commentary
Christine Dymkowski, On the Edge: The Plays of Susan Glaspell
Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author
Six Characters in Search of an Author in Performance
Federico García Lorca, The House of Bernarda Alba
The House of Bernarda Alba in Performance
Eugene O'Neill, Desire Under the Elms
Desire Under the Elms in Performance
Commentary
*Roger Asselineau, "The Quest for God in Desire Under the Elms"
Bertolt Brecht, Mother Courage and Her Children
Mother Courage and Her Children in Performance
Commentaries
Bertolt Brecht, The Alienation Effect
Bertolt Brecht, Notes for Mother Courage, Scene 12
*Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
*Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in Performance
Commentaries
*Tennessee Williams, Memoirs
*Brenda Murphy, Tennessee Williams and Elia Kazan Collaborate on Cat
Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
Death of a Salesman in Performance
Commentary
Arthur Miller, Tragedy and the Common Man
A Production Casebook: Death of a Salesman
Jo Mielziner, Designing a Play: Death of a Salesman
Elia Kazan, Directing Death of a Salesman
Arthur Miller, From "The American Theater"
Brenda Murphy, Racial Consciousness in Casting Death of a Salesman
June Schluetter and James K. Flanagan, Memorable Willy
Catherine Diamond, Death of a Salesman in Taipei
Eugène Ionesco, The Bald Soprano
The Bald Soprano in Performance
Commentary
Eugène Ionesco, The Tragedy of Language: How an English Primer Became My First Play
*Samuel Beckett, Endgame
*Endgame in Performance
Commentary
Martin Esslin, The Theater of the Absurd
Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun
A Raisin in the Sun in Performance
Wole Soyinka, The Strong Breed
The Strong Breed in Performance
Commentary
Lewis Nkosi, Interview with Wole Soyinka
CONTEMPORARY DRAMA
Experimentation
Theater of Cruelty
Environmental Theater
"Poor Theater"
Theater of Images
Gay and Lesbian Theater and Other New Ensembles
Experimentation within the Tradition
*Drama in the United States
*Drama in Europe: England, Ireland, and France
*Drama in Asia and Africa
The Contemporary Theater
The Contemporary Actor
Contemporary Drama Timeline
Harold Pinter, The Homecoming
The Homecoming in Performance
*María Irene Fornés, Fefu and Her Friends
*Fefu and Her Friends in Performance
Commentary
*Ruby Cohn, Fornés and Fefu
Sam Shepard, Buried Child
Buried Child in Performance
*Caryl Churchill, Cloud Nine
*Cloud Nine in Performance
Athol Fugard, "MASTER HAROLD" . . . and the Boys
"MASTER HAROLD"…and the Boys in Performance
Commentary
Athol Fugard, From Notebooks 1960-1977
David Mamet, Glengarry Glen Ross
Glengarry Glen Ross in Performance
August Wilson, Fences
Fences in Performance
Commentary
Joan Herrington, The Development of Fences
Tony Kushner, Angels in America: Millennium Approaches
Angels in America in Performance
Commentary
Andrea Bernstein, Interview with Tony Kushner
*Tom Stoppard, Arcadia
*Arcadia in Performance
Paula Vogel, How I Learned to Drive
How I Learned to Drive in Performance
Commentary
Christopher Bigsby, Paula Vogel
Moises Kaufman, The Laramie Project
The Laramie Project in Performance
*Suzan-Lori Parks, Topdog / Underdog
*Topdog/Underdog in Performance
*Sarah Ruhl, Eurydice
*Eurydice in Performance
*John Patrick Shanley, Doubt
*Doubt in Performance
*Conor McPherson, The Seafarer
*The Seafarer in Performance
*Yasmina Reza, God of Carnage
*God of Carnage in Performance
*Tracy Letts, August: Osage County
*August: Osage County in Performance
*Lynn Nottage, Ruined
*Ruined in Performance
Commentary
*Randy Gener, In Defense of Ruined
Writing about Drama
Writing Criticism about Drama
Approaches to Criticism
Reader Response Criticism
Close Reading
From Prewriting to Final Draft: A Sample Essay on The Rising of the Moon
Writing a Review
What Is the Purpose of a Review?
What You Need to Write a Good Review
Preparing to Review a Classic Play
Preparing to Review a New Play
Guidelines for Writing Reviews
Sample Review
Glossary of Dramatic Terms
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