Drama: A Pocket Anthology / Edition 5

by R. Gwynn

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A nice alternative to lengthier and more expense anthologies, Drama: A Pocket Anthology is the perfect choice for professors who want to see several books in an Introduction to Drama course. Chronologically organized, changes to the new edition include:

Yasmina Reza’s Tony-winning comedy The God of Carnage, produced on Broadway with a cast including James Gandolfini and Jeff Daniels, reflects the robust strength of today’s Broadway and of contemporary comedy.

Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night brings a classic comedy to this collection for the first time.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780133961720
Publisher:	Pearson Education
Publication date:	09/26/2014
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	528
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 1.50(d)

About the Author

R. S. Gwynn has edited several other books, including Fiction: A Pocket Anthology; Poetry: A Pocket Anthology; Literature: A Pocket Anthology; Inside Literature: Reading, Responding, Writing (with Steven Zani); The Art of the Short Story (with Dana Gioia); andContemporary American Poetry: A Pocket Anthology (with April Lindner). He has also authored five collections of poetry, including No Word of Farewell: Selected Poems, 1970-2000. He has been awarded the Michael Braude Award for verse from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Gwynn is University Professor of English and Poet-in-Residence at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction

The Play’s the Thing
Origins of Drama
Aristotle on Tragedy
Plot
Characterization
Theme
Diction
Melody
Spectacle
Brief History and Description of Dramatic Conventions

Writing About Drama

DRAMA

Sophocles
Antigone, translated by Robert Fagles
William Shakespeare
Twelfth Night; or, What You Will, edited by David Bevington
Henrik Ibsen
An Enemy of the People, adapted by Arthur Miller
Susan Glaspell
Trifles

Tennessee Williams
The Glass Menagerie
Edward Albee
The Sandbox
Athol Fugard
“Master Harold” . . . and the boys

August Wilson
The Piano Lesson
David Ives
Sure Thing
Milcha Sanchez-Scott
The Cuban Swimmer
Yasmina Reza
The God of Carnage, translated by Christopher Hampton

Acknowledgments

Index of Critical Terms