The Norton Anthology of Drama

by J. Ellen Gainor (Editor), Stanton B. Garner Jr. (Editor), Martin Puchner (Editor)

Overview

An exciting revision with a dynamic mix of teachable classics and new, diverse plays.

Instructors love The Norton Anthology of Drama because it contains an ideal balance of teachable classics and exciting contemporary plays. It provides the essential classic plays instructors need to teach alongside exciting new selections that reflect the dynamism and diversity of theater. Headnotes and critical annotations underscore the vitality of theatre from its beginnings to the contemporary stage, and the Short History of Theater section in the Introduction highlights the essential events and artists in theater history from Ancient Greece to the present. The Fourth Edition combines the Third Edition’s volumes into a single expanded anthology of selections.

Informed by a survey of more than 150 instructors, the Fourth Edition includes thirty-one of the most popular works from previous editions, plus seven new plays. Available for the first time as an ebook enriched with new videos, the Fourth Edition offers the best value and reading experience for students, and is the easiest volume for instructors to assign for any course on drama, theater history, performance, or playwriting.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393283495
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	09/14/2017
Edition description:	Third Edition
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.20(h) x 2.70(d)

About the Author

J. Ellen Gainor is a professor of theater in the Performing and Media Arts department at Cornell University. She is the author of two books, Shaw's Daughters: Dramatic and Narrative Constructions of Gender (1992) and Susan Glaspell in Context: American Theater, Culture, and Politics, 1915-48 (2003). Her edited volumes include Imperialism and Theater (1995) and Performing America: Cultural Nationalism in American Theater (2001). She is the co-editor, with Linda Bel-Zvi, of Susan Glaspell: The Complete Plays (2010).

Stanton B. Garner, Jr. is Professor of English and Adjunct Professor of Theatre at the University of Tennessee. He is the author of The Absent Voice: Narrative Comprehension in the Theater (1989), Bodied Spaces: Phenomenology and Performance in Contemporary Drama (1994), and Trevor Griffiths: Politics, Drama, History (1999). He served as guest editor for a special issue of Modern Drama on the topic of Theatre and Medicine (2008).

Martin Puchner, the Byron and Anita Wien Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Harvard University, is a prize-winning author, educator, public speaker, and institution-builder in the arts and humanities. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.