Modern drama : selected plays from 1879 to the present

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    • Levy, Walter

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Modern drama : selected plays from 1879 to the present

edited by Walter Levy

Prentice Hall, c1999

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Includes a selection of previously published critical essays in the appendix

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Description

For Modern and Contemporary Drama courses or for Introduction to Drama courses that focus on the modern period. Comprehensive and balanced, this anthology offers a collection of 25 works of modern and contemporary drama (1870s through early 1990s) - featuring plays that often demonstrate a significant breakthrough in maturity of expression and style for the playwright.

Table of Contents

PLAYS Henrik Ibsen. A Doll's House August Strindberg. Miss Julie Oscar Wilde. The Importance of Being Earnest George Bernard Shaw. Pygmalion Anton Chekhov. The Cherry Orchard Luigi Pirandello. Six Characters in Search of an Author John Millington Synge. The Playboy of the Western World Susan Glaspell. The Verge. Eugene O'Neill. Desire Under the Elms Thornton Wilder. Our Town Bertold Brecht. The Threepenny Opera Lillian Hellman. The Children's Hour Samuel Beckett. Endgame Eugene Ionesco. Rhinoceros Tennessee Williams. The Glass Menagerie Arthur Miller. All My Sons Edward Albee. The Zoo Story Lorraine Hansberry. A Raisin in the Sun Harold Pinter. The Birthday Party Wole Soyinka. The Lion and the Jewel Tom Stoppard. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Sam Shepard. Buried Child August Wilson. The Piano Lesson Marsha Norman. 'night Mother Wendy Wasserstein. The Sisters Rosensweig DRAMA THEORY AND CRITICISM. George Bernard Shaw. The Technical Novelty of Ibsen's Plays. August Strindberg. Author's Preface toMiss Julie Francis Fergusson. From The Idea of a Theater Luigi Pirandello. Preface to Six Characters in Search of an Author Karen Malpede. Reflections on The Verge Doris Alexander. Desire Under the Elms. Thornton Wilder. Some Thoughts on Playwriting. Bertolt Brecht. Selected Writings on The Threepenny Opera Martin Esslin. Samuel Beckett: The Search for Self. Eugene Ionesco. FromNotes and Counter Notes: Writings on the Theatre Geoffrey Borny. The TwoGlass Menageries:Reading Edition and Acting Edition. Arthur Miller. Ibsen and the Drama of Today. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The Chitlin Circuit. Katherine H. Burkman. The Demeter Myth and Doubling in Marsha Norman's'night Mother Chronology of Drama, History and Culture.Glossary.Credits.

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