The Seagull Reader: Plays

by Joseph Kelly (Editor)

Overview

A compelling mix of classic and contemporary plays: Norton quality at the most affordable price.

The Third Edition features a rich selection of plays, both classic and contemporary, at an unbeatable price and in a format suited to any course. The Seagull Reader: Plays now includes new writing pedagogy tailored to drama, as well as the same precise apparatus as previous editions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393938234
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	12/15/2014
Edition description:	Third Edition
Pages:	640
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Joseph P. Kelly (PhD, University of Texas, Austin) is Professor of English at the College of Charleston. He is the author of Marooned: Jamestown, Shipwreck, and a New History of America’s Origin; Our Joyce: From Outcast to Icon; and America’s Longest Siege: Charleston, Slavery and the Slow March Toward the Civil War.

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgments	vii
	Note on Dates	x
	Introduction	xi
	What Is Drama?	xi
	Dramatic Conventions Then and Now	xii
	Cultural Context	xiii
	Page versus Stage	xiv
	The Parts of a Play	xvi
	Plot	xvi
	Character	xix
	Spectacle	xxi
	Symbolism	xxiii
	Tragedy	xxv
	Comedy	xxviii
	Major Moments in the History of Theater	xxix
	Greek Theater	xxix
	Elizabethan Theater	xxxii
	Nineteenth-Century Middle-Class Theater	xxxv
	The Provincetown Players	xxxvi
	Contemporary American Theater	xxxviii
	Regional Theaters	xl
	Conclusion	xl
	Plays
	Sophocles, Oedipus the King	3
	William Shakespeare, Hamlet	54
	Henrik Ibsen, A Doll House	182
	Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest	254
	Susan Glaspell, Trifles	317
	Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie	332
	August Wilson, Fences	400
	David Henry Hwang, M. Butterfly	469
	Biographical Sketches	535
	Glossary	541
	Permissions Acknowledgments	547