Boston, MA : Wadsworth Cengage Learning, c2011.
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- Includes bibliographical references (p. 1839-1860) and index.
- Introduction : drama, theater, and culture — The theater of classical Europe : Athens and Rome — The Oresteia / Aeschylus — Agamemnon / Aeschylus — The libation bearers / Aeschylus — The Eumenides / Aeschylus — Oedipus the king / Sophocles — Medea / Euripides — Lysistrata / Aristophanes — The brothers Menaechmus / Plautus — The theater of classical Japan — Matsukaze / Kan’ami Kiyotsugu — Chûshingura : the forty-seven samurai / Nakamura Matagorō II and James R. Brandon, adaptors — The theater of Medieval and Renaissance England — The York crucifixion / Anonymous — Everyman / Anonymous — Doctor Faustus / Christopher Marlowe — A midsummer night’s dream / William Shakespeare — Hamlet / William Shakespeare — The tempest / William Shakespeare — Early Modern Europe — Life is a dream / Pedro Calderón de la Barca — Tartuffe / Molière — Phaedra / Jean Racine — The rover / Aphra Behn — Loa to the divine Narcissus / Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz — The recruiting officer / George Farquhar — Modern Europe — Woyzeck / Georg Büchner — A doll house / Henrik Ibsen — The importance of being earnest / Oscar Wilde — Ubu Roi / Alfred Jarry — A dream play / August Strindberg — The cherry orchard / Anton Chekhov — Major Barbara / Bernard Shaw — Six characters in search of an author / Luigi Pirandello — Pioneers in Ingolstadt / Marieluise Fleisser — Mother courage and her children / Bertolt Brecht — The balcony / Jean Genet — Endgame / Samuel Beckett — The homecoming / Harold Pinter — Hamletmachine / Heiner Müller — Cloud nine / Caryl Churchill — By the box of cats– / Marina Carr — Stuff happens / David Hare — The United States — The octoroon / Dion Boucicault — Trifles / Susan Glaspell — The hairy ape / Eugene O’Neill — Machinal / Sophie Treadwell — The glass menagerie / Tennessee Williams — Death of a Salesman / Arthur Miller — Dutchman / Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones — Los vendidos / Luis Valdez — True west / Sam Shepard — Fences / August Wilson
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