The Bedford Introduction to Drama

, by Lee A. Jacobus

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Preface for Instructors

Introduction: Thinking about Drama

(1)

What Is Drama?

(1)

Drama and Ritual

(1)

Drama: The Illusion of Reality

(1)

Seeing a Play Onstage

(2)

Theaters and Their Effect

(1)

Reading a Play

(1)

The Great Ages of Drama

(7)

Greek Drama

(1)

Roman Drama

(1)

Medieval Drama

(1)

Renaissance Drama

(1)

Late Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Drama

(1)

Nineteenth-Century Drama through the Turn of the Century

(1)

Drama in the Early and Mid-Twentieth Century

(1)

Contemporary Drama

(1)

Genres of Drama

(2)

Tragedy

(1)

Comedy

(1)

Tragicomedy

(1)

Elements of Drama

(6)

Plot

(1)

Characterization

(1)

Setting

(1)

Dialogue

(1)

Music

(1)

Movement

(1)

Theme

(2)

Lady Gregory

(8)

The Rising of the Moon

(6)

Greek Drama

(156)

Origins of Greek Drama

(2)

The Greeks and Their Gods

(1)

The Greek Stage

(1)

Genres of Greek Drama

(4)

Tragedy

(3)

Satyr Plays

(1)

Comedy

(1)

The Great Age of Greek Drama

(2)

Greek Drama Timeline

(2)

Aeschylus

(29)

Agamemnon

(22)

David Greene

Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty

Agamemnon in Performance

(21)

Commentaries on Aeschylus

Orestes and the Gods

(1)

Albrecht Dihle

Oresteia: Trilogy Preserved

(5)

Lois Spatz

Sophocles

(65)

Oedipus Rex

(25)

Dudley Fitts

Robert Fitzgerald

Oedipus Rex in Performance

(23)

Commentaries on Oedipus Rex

Poetics: Comedy and Epic and Tragedy

(6)

Aristotle

The Oedipus Complex

100

(3)

Sigmund Freud

From The Structural Study of Myth

103

(3)

Claude Levi-Strauss

Antigone

106

(19)

Dudley Fitts

Robert Fitzgerald

Antigone in Performance

107

(18)

Commentaries on Antigone

Emotion and Meaning in Greek Tragedy

125

(2)

Oliver Taplin

rom Antigone

127

(6)

Jean Anouilh

Euripides

133

(28)

Medea

134

(24)

Paul Roche

Medea in Performance

135

(23)

Commentary on Euripides

Review of Medea

158

(3)

John Simon

Aristophanes

161

(24)

Lysistrata

162

(21)

Dudley Fitts

Lysistrata in Performance

164

(19)

Commentary on Aristophanes

Review of Lysistrata

183

(2)

Brooks Atkinson

Roman Drama

185

(16)

Indigenous Sources

185

(1)

The Greek Influence

186

(1)

The Roman Stage

187

(2)

Roman Drama Timeline

189

(3)

Roman Dramatists

192

(9)

Plautus, Excerpt from The Twin Menaechmi (Act III)

192

(3)

Terence, Excerpt from The Brothers (Act V)

195

(4)

Seneca, Excerpt from Thyestes (Act V, Scene ii)

199

(2)

Medieval Drama

201

(35)

The Role of the Church

201

(1)

Miracle Plays

202

(1)

Mystery Plays

203

(1)

Morality Plays

204

(1)

The Medieval Stage

205

(1)

The Actors

206

(1)

Medieval Drama Timeline

207

(3)

Hrosvitha

210

(26)

Dulcitius

211

(4)

K. M. Wilson

Dulcitius in Performance

212

(3)

Commentaries on Hrosvitha

Reading Hrotsvit's Tormented Bodies

215

(1)

Marla Carlson

Re-viewing Hrotsvit

216

(7)

Sue Ellen Case

Everyman

223

(13)

Everyman in Performance

224

(12)

Renaissance Drama

236

(281)

Italian Drama

236

(4)

Vitruvius and the Rediscovery of Roman Design

237

(1)

Commedia dell'Arte

238

(2)

Elizabethan Drama

240

(4)

The First Professional Companies

241

(1)

The Elizabethan Theater

241

(1)

The Elizabethan Audience

241

(2)

Female Characters on the English Stage

243

(1)

The Masque

243

(1)

Spanish Drama

244

(1)

Renaissance Drama Timeline

245

(3)

Christopher Marlowe

248

(33)

Doctor Faustus

249

(29)

Doctor Faustus in Performance

251

(27)

Commentary on Marlowe

From Ten Problems in Dr. Faustus

278

(3)

Ernst Honigmann

William Shakespeare

281

(188)

A Midsummer Night's Dream

283

(32)

A Midsummer Night's Dream in Performance

284

(31)

Commentaries on A Midsummer Night's Dream

Masque Elements in A Midsummer Night's Dream

315

(2)

Enid Welsford

On A Midsummer Night's Dream

317

(2)

Linda Bamber

The Play Is the Message

319

(3)

Peter Brook

Review of A Midsummer Night's Dream

322

(2)

Clive Barnes

Hamlet

324

(57)

Hamlet in Performance

326

(55)

Commentaries on Hamlet

On Hamlet

381

(3)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Hamlet's Scruples

384

(1)

Sigmund Freud

Hamlet and His Problems

385

(4)

T. S. Eliot

Review of Hamlet

389

(3)

John Lahr

Othello

392

(45)

Othello in Performance

394

(43)

Commentaries on Othello

Othello's Character

437

(7)

A. C. Bradley

Macready's Othello

444

(4)

Virginia Mason Vaughan

Going It Alone: A Review of Olivier's Othello

448

(2)

John Holstrom

A Cultural Casebook

The Issue of Race and Othello

450

(2)

From Mandeville's Travels

452

(2)

Sir John Mandeville

From Decades of the New World

454

(1)

Richard Eden

From A Geographical Historie of Africa

455

(3)

Leo Africanus

John Pory

From ``Othello and Color Prejudice''

458

(7)

G. K. Hunter

Shakespeare without Tears

465

(2)

Margaret Webster

Review of Patrick Stewart as Othello

467

(2)

Peter Marks

Ben Jonson

469

(13)

The Masque of Blackness

470

(7)

The Masque of Blackness in Performance

471

(6)

Commentary on Jonson

Africa in English Masque and Pageantry

477

(5)

Eldred Jones

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

482

(35)

Life Is a Dream

483

(28)

Roy Campbell

Life Is a Dream in Performance

484

(27)

Commentaries on Calderon

Review of the 1998 Edinburgh Festival Production of Life Is a Dream

511

(2)

Michael Billington

Review of Jose Rivera's Production of Sueno

513

(2)

Ed Morales

The Hamlet of Spain, in a Fevered Setting

515

(2)

Matt Wolf

Late Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Drama

517

(126)

The Restoration: Rebirth of Drama

517

(1)

Theater on the Continent: Neoclassicism

517

(2)

French Comedy: Moliere

518

(1)

Theater in England: Restoration Comedy of Manners

519

(4)

Eighteenth-Century Drama

521

(2)

Late Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Drama Timeline

523

(3)

Moliere

526

(26)

The Misanthrope

527

(22)

Richard Wilbur

The Misanthrope in Performance

528

(21)

Commentary on Moliere

Alceste's Love for Celimene

549

(3)

Lionel Gossman

Aphra Behn

552

(46)

The Rover; Or, The Banished Cavaliers

554

(39)

The Rover; or, The Banished Cavaliers in Performance

555

(38)

Commentaries on Behn

On Aphra Behn

593

(1)

Virginia Woolf

Courtship and Marriage in The Rover

594

(4)

Elaine Hobby

William Congreve

598

(45)

The Way of the World

599

(38)

The Way of the World in Performance

600

(37)

Commentaries on Congreve

Review of The Way of the World

637

(1)

Howard Taubman

Amendments of Mr. Collier's False and Imperfect Citations, etc.

638

(3)

William Congreve

Comedy, Manners, and Brickbats

641

(2)

Arnold Aronson

Nineteenth-Century Drama through the Turn of the Century

643

(245)

Technical Innovations

643

(1)

Romantic Drama

643

(2)

Melodrama

645

(2)

The Well-Made Play

647

(1)

The Rise of Realism

648

(3)

Nineteenth-Century Drama Timeline

651

(3)

Henrik Ibsen

654

(90)

A Doll House

656

(33)

Rolf Fjelde

A Doll House in Performance

658

(31)

Commentaries on A Doll House

Notes for the Modern Tragedy

689

(1)

Henrik Ibsen

A Doll's House

690

(1)

Bernard Shaw

A Doll's House: Ibsen the Moralist

691

(3)

Muriel C. Bradbrook

Hedda Gabler

694

(37)

Rolf Fjelde

Hedda Gabler in Performance

696

(35)

Commentaries on Hedda Gabler

Notes for Hedda Gabler

731

(4)

Henrik Ibsen

Thematic Symbols in Hedda Gabler

735

(5)

Caroline W. Mayerson

On Hedda Gabler

740

(2)

Jan Kott

Review of Hedda Gabler

742

(2)

Clive Barnes

August Strindberg

744

(20)

Miss Julie

745

(17)

Harry G. Carlson

Miss Julie in Performance

746

(16)

Commentary on Strindberg

From the Preface to Miss Julie

762

(2)

August Strinberg

Oscar Wilde

764

(36)

The Importance of Being Earnest

765

(27)

The Importance of Being Earnest in Performance

766

(26)

Commentaries on Wilde

An Unpublished Letter from Oscar Wilde on The Importance of Being Earnest

792

(4)

Peter Raby

The Origins of The Importance of Being Earnest

796

(4)

Peter Raby

Anton Chekhov

800

(31)

The Cherry Orchard

801

(23)

Ann Dunnigan

The Cherry Orchard in Performance

802

(22)

Commentaries on Chekhov

From Letters of Anton Chekhov

824

(2)

Anton Chekhov

From Recollections

826

(1)

Maxim Gorky

On The Cherry Orchard

827

(1)

Virginia Woolf

Review of The Cherry Orchard

827

(2)

John Corbin

On Chekhov

829

(2)

Peter Brook

Bernard Shaw

831

(57)

Mrs. Warren's Profession

832

(28)

Mrs. Warren's Profession in Performance

833

(27)

Commentaries on Shaw

Theatre Magazine, A Contemporary Reaction to Mrs. Warren's Profession

860

(2)

New York Times, Efforts at Censorship of Mrs. Warren's Profession

862

(4)

Plays Unpleasant: Mrs. Warren's Profession

866

(1)

Bernard Shaw

From the Preface to Mrs. Warren's Profession

866

(5)

Bernard Shaw

A Cultural Casebook

The ``Woman Question'' in the Late Nineteenth Century

871

(1)

On the Subjection of Women

872

(1)

John Stuart Mill

The Woman Question: Women's Rights

873

(3)

August Strindberg

Marriage and Divorce in Sweden

876

(2)

Johan Thorsten Sellin

A Nineteenth-Century Husband's Letter to His Wife

878

(2)

Richard Panofsky

What It Means to Be a Wife

880

(3)

Helen Watterson Moody

London Journal: ``Prostitutes in London ... All the Streets Are Full of Them''

883

(2)

Flora Tristan

A Letter to the Times (London) from a Prostitute

885

(1)

Successful Madams

886

(2)

Barbara Meil Hobson

Drama in the Early and Mid-Twentieth Century

888

(442)

The Heritage of Realism

888

(1)

Realism and Myth

889

(1)

Myth and Culture

889

(1)

Poetic Realism

889

(1)

Social Realism

890

(1)

Realism and Expressionism

891

(1)

Antirealism

892

(1)

Epic Theater

893

(1)

Absurdist Drama

894

(1)

Early and Mid-Twentieth-Century Drama Timeline

895

(4)

John Millington Synge

899

(55)

The Playboy of the Western World

900

(25)

The Playboy of the Western World in Performance

901

(24)

Commentary on Synge

Producing the Playboy

925

(4)

W. G. Fay

Catherine Carswell

A Cultural Casebook

The Abbey Theatre and the Irish Literary Renaissance

929

(3)

``Our Statement'' and ``Advice to Playwrights''

932

(3)

Lady Isabella Augusta Gregory

Cathleen ni Houlihan

935

(7)

William Butler Yeats

A Comment on Cathleen ni Houlihan

942

(1)

Lady Isabella Augusta Gregory

The United Irishman, Reviews of Yeats's Cathleen ni Houlihan and A.E.'s Deirdre

943

(2)

Community Drama

945

(1)

W. G. Fay

Catherine Carswell

The Abbey Theatre

946

(3)

Peter Kavanagh

The Dramatic Movement

949

(3)

William Butler Yeats

Journal Entries on the Playboy Riots

952

(2)

Joseph Holloway

Susan Glaspell

954

(10)

Trifles

955

(7)

Trifles in Performance

956

(6)

Commentary on Glaspell

On the Edge: The Plays of Susan Glaspell

962

(2)

Christine Dymkowski

Luigi Pirandello

964

(26)

Six Characters in Search of an Author

965

(23)

Edward Storer

Six Characters in Search of an Author in Performance

966

(22)

Commentary on Pirandello

Review of Six Characters in Search of an Author

988

(2)

John Corbin

Eugene O'Neill

990

(28)

Desire under the Elms

991

(25)

Desire under the Elms in Performance

992

(24)

Commentary on O'Neill

Review of Desire under the Elms

1016

(2)

Stark Young

Federico Garcia Lorca

1018

(23)

The House of Bernarda Alba

1019

(20)

James Graham-Lujan

Richard L. O'Connell

The House of Bernarda Alba in Performance

1020

(19)

Commentary on Garcia Lorca

Religion in The House of Bernarda Alba

1039

(2)

John Gilmour

Eugene Ionesco

1041

(15)

The Lesson

1042

(14)

Donald Allen

The Lesson in Performance

1043

(13)

Bertolt Brecht

1056

(40)

Mother Courage

1057

(31)

John Willett

Mother Courage in Performance

1059

(29)

Commentaries on Brecht

The Alienation Effect

1088

(4)

Bertolt Brecht

Notes for Mother Courage, Scene 12

1092

(4)

Bertolt Brecht

Tennessee Williams

1096

(85)

The Glass Menagerie

1097

(31)

The Glass Menagerie in Performance

1098

(30)

Commentaries on The Glass Menagerie

Review of The Glass Menagerie

1128

(1)

Lewis Nichols

Laurette Taylor in The Glass Menagerie

1129

(2)

Donald Spoto

Problems in The Glass Menagerie

1131

(3)

Benjamin Nelson

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

1134

(40)

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in Performance

1135

(39)

Commentaries on Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Memoirs

1174

(2)

Tennessee Williams

Tennessee Williams and Elia Kazan Collaborate on Cat

1176

(5)

Brenda Murphy

Arthur Miller

1181

(54)

Death of a Salesman

1182

(41)

Death of a Salesman in Performance

1184

(39)

Commentaries on Miller

In Memoriam

1223

(2)

Arthur Miller

Tragedy and the Common Man

1225

(3)

Arthur Miller

A Salesman Who Transcends Time

1228

(3)

Michiko Kakutani

Death of a Salesman: The Design Process

1231

(4)

Brenda Murphy

Samuel Beckett

1235

(36)

Endgame

1236

(30)

Endgame in Performance

1238

(28)

Commentaries on Beckett

The Theater of the Absurd

1266

(2)

Martin Esslin

The Ending of Endgame

1268

(3)

Sidney Homan

Lorraine Hansberry

1271

(41)

A Raisin in the Sun

1272

(38)

A Raisin in the Sun in Performance

1273

(37)

Commentary on Hansberry

Review of A Raisin in the Sun

1310

(2)

Brooks Atkinson

Wole Soyinka

1312

(18)

The Strong Breed

1313

(14)

The Strong Breed in Performance

1314

(13)

Commentary on Soyinka

Interview with Wole Soyinka

1327

(3)

Lewis Nkosi

Contemporary Drama

1330

(465)

Experimentation

1330

(5)

Theater of Cruelty

1330

(1)

Environmental Theater

1331

(1)

``Poor Theater,''

1331

(1)

Theater of Images

1332

(1)

Gay and Lesbian Theater and Other New Ensembles

1332

(2)

Experiments with Theater Space

1334

(1)

Experimentation within the Tradition

1335

(4)

Contemporary Drama Timeline

1339

(4)

Luis Valdez

1343

(35)

Zoot Suit

1344

(34)

Zoot Suit in Performance

1344

(34)

Harold Pinter

1378

(27)

Betrayal

1379

(19)

Betrayal in Performance

1380

(18)

Commentary on Pinter

Harold Pinter's Betrayal: Life before Death--and After

1398

(7)

Katherine H. Burkman

Caryl Churchill

1405

(33)

Cloud Nine

1407

(28)

Cloud Nine in Performance

1408

(27)

Commentary on Churchill

Review of the Old Vic Production of Cloud Nine

1435

(3)

James Treadwell

Sam Shepard

1438

(25)

True West

1439

(24)

True West in Performance

1440

(23)

Athol Fugard

1463

(25)

``Master Harold''... and the boys

1464

(20)

``Master Harold''... and the boys in Performance

1465

(19)

Commentaries on Fugard

Interview with Athol Fugard

1484

(2)

Heinrich von Staden

From Notebooks 1960-1977

1486

(2)

Athol Fugard

Marsha Norman

1488

(22)

'Night, Mother

1489

(19)

'night, Mother in Performance

1490

(18)

Commentary on Norman

Interview with Marsha Norman

1508

(2)

David Savran

August Wilson

1510

(37)

Fences

1512

(30)

Fences in Performance

1513

(29)

Commentaries on Wilson

Interview with August Wilson

1542

(2)

David Savran

Review of Fences

1544

(3)

Frank Rich

David Henry Hwang

1547

(34)

M. Butterfly

1548

(27)

M. Butterfly in Performance

1549

(26)

Commentaries on Hwang

An Interview with David Henry Hwang

1575

(4)

John Louis DiGaetani

M. Butterfly

Review of M. Butterfly

1579

(2)

John Gross

Brian Friel

1581

(33)

Dancing at Lughnasa

1582

(32)

Dancing at Lughnasa in Performance

1583

(31)

Suzan-Lori Parks

1614

(25)

The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World

1615

(17)

The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World in Performance

1617

(15)

Commentaries on Parks

Interview with Suzan-Lori Parks

1632

(2)

Lee A. Jacobus

Interview with Liz Diamond

1634

(2)

Lee A. Jacobus

Language in Last Black Man

1636

(3)

Alisa Solomon

David Mamet

1639

(19)

Oleanna

1640

(18)

Oleanna in Performance

1641

(17)

Tony Kushner

1658

(39)

Angels in America: Millennium Approaches

1659

(34)

Angels in America: Millennium Approaches in Performance

1660

(33)

Commentary on Kushner

Interview with Tony Kushner

1693

(4)

Andrea Bernstein

Yasmina Reza

1697

(24)

``Art'' (Translated by Christopher Hampton)

1697

(20)

``Art'' in Performance

1698

(19)

Commentary on Reza

What Is ``Art''?

1717

(4)

Louis Menand

Martin McDonagh

1721

(28)

The Beauty Queen of Leenane

1722

(22)

The Beauty Queen of Leenane in Performance

1723

(21)

Commentaries on McDonagh

A New Young Playwright Full of Old Irish Voices

1744

(3)

Benedict Nightingale

Beastly Beauty

1747

(2)

Alisa Solomon

Paula Vogel

1749

(46)

How I Learned to Drive

1750

(23)

How I Learned to Drive in Performance

1750

(23)

Commentaries on Vogel

Coast to Coast with Paula Vogel

1773

(5)

Caridad Svich

Peter Franklin

Paula Vogel

1778

(2)

David Savran

Review of How I Learned to Drive

1780

(3)

Jill Dolan

Appendices

Writing About Drama

1783

(1)

Why Write about Drama?

1783

(1)

Conventions in Writing Criticism about Drama

1783

(1)

Approaches to Criticism

1784

(2)

Reader Response Criticism

1784

(1)

Close Reading

1785

(1)

From Prewriting to Final Draft: A Sample Essay on The Rising of the Moon

1786

(5)

How to Write a Review

1791

(4)

What Is the Purpose of a Review?

1791

(1)

What You Need to Write a Good Review

1791

(1)

Preparing to Review a Classic Play

1792

(1)

Preparing to Review a New Play

1792

(1)

Guidelines for Writing Reviews

1793

(1)

Sample Reviews

1793

(2)

Glossary of Dramatic Terms

1795

(8)

Selected Bibliography

1803

(27)

Selected List of Film, Video, and Audiocassette Resources

1830

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