The Harcourt Anthology of Drama, Brief Edition

Based on the best-selling HARCOURT ANTHOLOGY OF DRAMA, the Brief Edition provides many of the important elements of that anthology but in a more streamlined form.

Preface

iii

Introduction: Drama, Theater, and Culture

1

(2)

Reading Drama and Seeing Theater

3

(2)

Drama and Theater in History

5

(3)

Dramatic Genres

8

(1)

Dramatic Form

9

(1)

The Stage in Critical Practice

9

(2)

UNIT I CLASSICAL ATHENS

11

(86)

(Aside) Roman Drama and Theater

20

(77)

Oedipus the King

25

(20)

Sophocles

Medea

45

(16)

Euripides

Aristophanes

61

(36)

Lysistrata

Critical Contexts Aristotle, from the Poetics

79

(10)

``The Idea of The Actor''

89

(8)

Niall W. Slater

UNIT II CLASSICAL JAPAN

97

(50)

(Aside) Sanskrit Drama and Theater

110

(37)

Matsukaze

113

(7)

Kan'ami Kiyotsugu

Chushingura: The Forty-Seven Samurai

120

(27)

Nakamura Matagoro II

James R. Brandon

Critical Contexts ``Teachings on Style and the Flower''

139

(8)

Zeami Motokiyo

UNIT III MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE ENGLAND

147

(120)

(Aside) Shakespeare's Globe

160

(4)

(Aside) The Jacobean Court Masque

164

(103)

Everyman

171

(11)

Anonymous

Hamlet

182

(47)

William Shakespeare

The Tempest

229

(38)

Critical Contexts from Apology for Poetry

258

(1)

Sir Philip Sidney

``Anatomies of Playing''

259

(8)

Louis Montrose

UNIT IV EARLY MODERN EUROPE

267

(134)

(Aside) Commedia dell'Arte

280

(121)

Life Is a Dream

283

(26)

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Tartuffe

309

(29)

Moliere

The Rover

338

(35)

Aphra Behn

Loa to The Divine Narcissus

373

(28)

Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz

Critical Contexts ``Preface to Troilus and Cressida, Containing the Grounds of Criticism in Tragedy''

381

(12)

John Dryden

``Playhouse Flesh and Blood': Sexual Ideology and the Restoration Actress''

393

(8)

Katharine Eisaman Maus

UNIT V MODERN EUROPE

401

(216)

(Aside) Melodrama

410

(207)

A Doll House

421

(27)

Henrik Ibsen

The Cherry Orchard

448

(23)

Anton Chekhov

Major Barbara

471

(34)

Bernard Shaw

Mother Courage and Her Children

505

(28)

Bertolt Brecht

Endgame

533

(23)

Samuel Beckett

Cloud Nine

556

(61)

Caryl Churchill

Critical Contexts The Birth of Tragedy

584

(4)

Friedrich Nietzsche

Naturalism in the Theatre

588

(8)

Emile Zola

``Direction and Acting''

596

(6)

Constanting Stanislavski

``Theatre for Pleasure or Theatre for Instruction''

602

(5)

Bertolt Brecht

The Theater and Its Double

607

(10)

Antonin Artaud

UNIT VI THE UNITED STATES

617

(160)

(Aside) The Federal Theater Project

624

(4)

(Aside) Performance Art

628

(149)

Trifles

631

(6)

Susan Glaspell

The Glass Menagerie

637

(27)

Tennessee Williams

Los Vendidos

664

(5)

Luis Valdez

Fences

669

(27)

August Wilson

M. Butterfly

696

(24)

David Henry Hwang

Angels in America, Part I: Millennium Approaches

720

(31)

Tony Kushner

The America Play

751

(26)

Suzan-Lori Parks

Critical Contexts ``Tragedy and the Common Man''

766

(2)

Arthur Miller

``Beyond the Culture Wars''

768

(9)

Henry Louis Gates Jr.

UNIT VII WORLD STAGES

777

(170)

(Aside) Intercultural Performance

795

(152)

A Tempest

796

(17)

Aime Cesaire

Death and the King's Horseman

813

(24)

Wole Soyinka

Translations

837

(26)

Brian Friel

Gangsters

863

(13)

Maishe Maponya

Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing

876

(29)

Tomson Highway

Valley Song

905

(42)

Athol Fugard

Critical Contexts ``The Fact of Blackness''

921

(14)

Frantz Fanon

Post-Colonial Drama

935

(12)

Helen Gilbert

Joanne Tompkins

Appendix: Writing about Drama and Theater

947

(10)

Glossary

957

(12)

Bibliography

969

(14)

Video, Film, and Sound Recordings of Plays

983

(3)

Credits

986

(3)

Index

989

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