Drama: A Pocket Anthology / Edition 5

by R. S. Gwynn

Overview

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:	9780205032167
Publisher:	Longman
Publication date:	01/24/2011
Pages:	528
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 1.10(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); and Contemporary 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

Introduction to Drama.
Writing about Drama.

Sophocles (496?-406 B.C.), Oedipus the King.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Othello, the Moor of Venice.
Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906), A Doll House.
Susan Glaspell (1882-1948), Trifles.
Tennessee Williams (1911-1983), The Glass Menagerie.
Arthur Miller (1915-), Death of a Salesman.
August Wilson (1945-), Fences.
David Ives (1950-), Sure Thing.
Wendy Wasserstein (1950-), The Heidi Chronicles.
Index of Critical Terms.