Bedford Introduction to Drama

Name: Bedford Introduction to Drama
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ISBN: 9780312474881

ISBN-10: 0312474881

ISBN-13: 9780312474881

Edition: 6th

Authors: Lee A. Jacobus

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The Bedford Anthology of Dramais the most comprehensive introductory drama resource available. Its 54 chronologically arranged plays represent every major period from classic times to the present. With in-depth treatment of 3 major playwrights, the strongest representation of plays by women and American multicultural plays, and an exciting contemporary section loaded with prize winners,The Bedford Anthology of Dramahas the plays you want to teach and features designed to help students think critically about all aspects of a play as a work of literature and as a performance. Giving students a rich understanding of the plays and the contexts from which they emerge the anthology offers 57…

Book details

List price: $103.99
Edition: 6th
Publisher: Bedford/Saint Martin's
Publication date: 9/5/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 1824
Size: 8.00" wide x 10.00" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 4.642
Language: English



Preface for Instructors


Introduction: Thinking about Drama


What Is Drama?


Drama and Ritual


Drama: The Illusion of Reality


Seeing a Play Onstage


Theaters and Their Effect


Reading a Play


The Great Ages of Drama


Greek Drama


Roman Drama


Medieval Drama


Renaissance Drama


Late Seventeenth-and Eighteenth-Century Drama


Nineteenth-Century Drama through the Turn of the Twentieth Century


Drama in the Early and Mid-Twentieth Century


Contemporary Drama


Genres of Drama


Tragedy


Comedy


Tragicomedy


Elements of Drama


Plot


Characterization


Setting


Dialogue


Music


Movement


Theme


The Rising of the Moon



Greek Drama


Origins of Greek Drama


The Greeks and Their Gods


The Greek Stage


The Greek Actor


Genres of Greek Drama


Tragedy


Satyr Plays


Comedy


The Great Age of Greek Drama


Greek Drama Timeline


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