Compact Bedford Introduction to Drama

Name: Compact Bedford Introduction to Drama
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ISBN: 9780312474898

ISBN-10: 031247489X

ISBN-13: 9780312474898

Edition: 6th 2009

Authors: Lee A. Jacobus

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The Compact Bedford Anthology of Dramapresents a well-balanced selection of plays, commentaries, and casebooks in a concise, affordable format. Its 29 chronologically arranged plays represent every major period from classic times to the present. With in-depth treatment of William Shakespeare, a strong representation of plays by women and American multicultural plays, and an exciting contemporary section loaded with prize winners,The Compact 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…

Book details

List price: $80.99
Edition: 6th
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Bedford/Saint Martin's
Publication date: 9/12/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 1088
Size: 8.01" wide x 9.99" long x 1.17" tall
Weight: 2.684
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


Lady Gregory, 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


Oedipus Rex (Translated by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald)



Oedipus Rex in Performance


Commentaries on Oedipus Rex


Aristotle, Poetics: Comedy and Epic and Tragedy


Sigmund Freud, The Oedipus Complex


Claude Lï¿½vi-Strauss, From The Structural Study of Myth


Aristophanes, Lysistrata (Translated by Dudley Fitts)


Lysistrata in Performance


Roman Drama


Indigenous Sources


The Greek Influence


The Roman Stage


*The Roman Actor


Roman Drama Timeline


Roman Dramatists


Plautus, Excerpt from The Twin Menaechmi (Act III)


Terence, Excerpt from The Brothers (Act V)


Seneca, Excerpt from Thyestes (Act V, Scene ii)


Medieval Drama


The Role of the Church


Miracle Plays


Mystery Plays


Morality Plays


The Medieval Stage


*The Medieval Actor


Medieval Drama Timeline


Hrosvitha, Dulcitius (Translated by K.M. Wilson)


Dulcitius in Performance


Commentary on Hrosvitha


Sue-Ellen Case, Re-viewing Hrotsvit


Anonymous, Everyman (Edited by A.C. Cawley)


Everyman in Performance


Renaissance Drama


Italian Drama


The Italian Theater


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