The Harcourt Brace Anthology of Drama

This best-selling drama anthology is an unusually comprehensive collection of classic theatre and contemporary drama drawn from around the world.

1. Classical Athens (Aside) Roman Drama and Theater Aeschylus - The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Liberation Bearers, and The Eumenides Sophocles - Oedipus the King Euripides - Medea Aristophanes - Lysistrata Critical Contexts: Aristotle, from The Poetics Performance Contexts: Sue-Ellen Case, from Classic Drag: The Greek Creation of Female Parts; Niall W. Slater, from The Idea of the Actor Performance Review: Michael Billington - Review of The Oresteia, Royal National Theatre, London (1981) 2. Classical Japan (Aside) Sanskrit Drama and Theater Kan''''ami Kiyotsugu - Matsukaze Nakamura Matagorō II and James R. Brandon, adaptors - Chūshingura: The Forty-Seven Samurai Critical Contexts: Zeami Motokiyo, from A Mirror Held to the Flowers Performance Contexts: Zeami Motokiyo, from Teachings on Style and the Flower Performance Review: Sandra Schlanger - Review of Chūshingura: The Forty-Seven Samurai, University of Hawai''''i (1979) 3. Medieval and Renaissance England (Aside) Shakespeare''''s Globe (Aside) The Jacobean Court Masque Anonymous - The Wakefield Second Shepherds'''' Pageant Anonymous - Everyman Christopher Marlowe - Doctor Faustus William Shakespeare - Hamlet William Shakespeare - The Tempest Critical Contexts: Sir Philip Sidney, from Apology for Poetry Performance Contexts: Louis Montrose - Anatomies of Playing Performance Review: Mel Gussow - Review of Hamlet, Royal Shakespeare Company (1980) 4. Early Modern Europe (Aside) Commedia Dell'''' Arte Pedro Calderon de la Barca - Life Is a Dream Molière - Tartuffe Jean Racine - Phaedra Aphra Behn - The Rover Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz - Loa to The Divine Narcissus George Farquhar - The Recruiting Officer Critical Contexts: John Dryden - Preface to Troilus and Cressida, Containing the Grounds of Criticism in Tragedy Performance Contexts: Katharine Eisaman Maus, from "Playhouse Flesh and Blood": Sexual Ideology and the Restoration Actress Performance Review: Frank Rich - Review of The Rover, Williamstown Theater (1987) 5. Modern Europe (Aside) Melodrama Henrik Ibsen - A Doll House August Strindberg - The Father Anton Chekhov - The Cherry Orchard Bernard Shaw - Major Barbara Luigi Pirandello - Six Characters in Search of an Author Bertolt Brecht - Mother Courage and Her Children Samuel Beckett - Endgame Harold Pinter - The Homecoming Heiner Müller - Hamletmachine Caryl Churchill - Cloud Nine Timberlake Wertenbaker - Our Country''''s Good Critical Contexts: Friedrich Nietzsche, from The Birth of Tragedy; Émile Zola, from Naturalism in Theatre; Martin Esslin, from The Theatre of the Absurd, Fredric Jameson, from Postmodern and Consumer Society Performance Contexts: Constantin Stanislavski - Direction and Acting; Bertolt Brecht - Theatre for Pleasure or Theatre for Instruction; Antonin Artaud, from The Theater and Its Double; Gay Gibson Cima - Discovering Signs: The Emergence of the Critical Actor in Ibsen; W. B. Worthen, from Modern Drama and the Rhetoric of Theater Performance Reviews: Bernard Shaw - Review of A Doll''''s House, Globe Theatre, London (1897); Ben Brantley - Review of A Doll''''s House, Belasco Theater, New York (1997) 6. The United States (Aside) The Federal Theater Project (Aside) Performance Art Susan Glaspell - Trifles Eugene O''''Neill - The Hairy Ape Tennessee Williams - The Glass Menagerie Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones - Dutchman Luis Valdez - Los Vendidos Sam Shepard - True West August Wilson - Fences David Henry Hwang - M. Butterfly Tony Kushner - Angles in America, Part I: Millennium Approaches Anna Deveare Smith - Fires in the Mirror: Crown Heights, Brooklyn, and Other Identities Suzan-Lori Parks - The America Play Critical Contexts: Arthur Miller - Tragedy and the Common Man; Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones - The Revolutionary Theatre; Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - Beyond the Culture Wars Performance Contexts: Arnold Aronson - Design for Angels in America: Envisioning the Millennium; Tina Landau - Source-Work, the Viewpoints and Composition: What Are They? Performance Review: Robert Brustein - Review of Angels in America, Walter Kerr Theater, New York (1993) 7. World Stages (Aside) Intercultural Performance Mishima Yukio - The Lady Aoi Satoh Makoto - My Beatles Aime Cesaire - A Tempest Griselda Gambaro - Information for Foreigners Wole Soyinka - Death and the King''''s Horseman Brian Friel - Translations Maishe Maponya - Gangsters Jack Davis - No Sugar Tomson Highway - Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing Athol Fugard - Valley Song Critical Contexts: Frantz Fanon - The Fact of Blackness; Homi K. Bhabha - Of Mimicry and Man: The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse Performance Contexts: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong''''o - Enactments of Power: The Politics of Performance Space; Helen Gilbert and Joanne Tompkins, from Post-Colonial Drama Performance Review: John Bremrose - Review of Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing, Royal Alexandria Theatre, Toronto (1991)