Cengage Advantage Books: A Pocketful of Plays

A POCKETFUL OF PLAYS: VINTAGE DRAMA contains six plays: TRIFLES, by Susan Glaspell; OEDIPUS THE KING, by Sophocles; HAMLET, by William Shakespeare; A DOLL'S HOUSE, by Henrik Ibsen; THE GLASS MENAGERIE, by Tennessee Williams; and A RAISIN IN THE SUN, by Lorraine Hansberry. The plays include source materials to encourage further discussion and analysis. Among these enhancements are author's comments, biographical and critical commentaries, and reviews of actual productions.

A Word from the Editor to Students and Teacher

vii

Questions That Suggest How to See and Hear a Printed Play in the Theater of Your Mind

ix

Susan Glaspell, Trifles

1

(16)

Sophocles, Oedipus the King

17

(58)

A critical commentary on the 1954 Canadian Shakespearean Festival presentation of Oedipus the King by James M. Clay and Daniel Krempel

69

(6)

William Shakespeare, Hamlet

75

(132)

Reviews of three major productions of Hamlet

199

(8)

Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

207

(82)

A feminist perspective on A Doll's House by M.C. Bradbrook

279

(10)

Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

289

(70)

"The Timeless World of a Play" by Tennessee Williams

353

(6)

Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun

359

(96)

Historical perspective on a A Raisin in the Sun by Loften Mitchell

452

(3)

Credits

455

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Cengage Advantage Books: A Pocketful of Plays Vintage Drama, Volume I, Revised Edition

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