Stages of Drama: Classical to Contemporary Theater
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With a distinctive emphasis on performance and a comprehensive selection of classic and contemporary plays — Stages of Dramatruly engages students by presenting plays not only as texts on the page, but also as works that come to life on the stage.
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Contents:
Reading and witnessing a play
Classical theater
Medieval theater
Renaissance English theater
Neoclassical theater
Modern theater
Contemporary theater
Ideas of drama : classical to contemporary.
The plays: Agamemnon / Aeschylus
Oedipus Rex / Sophocles
The Bacchae / Euripides
Lysistrata / Aristophanes
A funny thing happened on the way to the wedding (casina) / Plautus
The second shepherds' play / The Wakefield Master
Everyman / Anonymous
The tragical history of the life and death of Doctor Faustus / Christopher Marlowe
Much ado about nothing ; The tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice / William Shakespeare
Volpone, or The foxe / Ben Jonson
The misanthrope / Moliere
The rover / Aphra Behn
The school for scandal / Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Woyzeck / Georg Buchner
A doll's house / Henrik Ibsen
Miss Julie / August Strindberg
The importance of being Earnest / Oscar Wilde
In the shadow of the glen / John Millington Synge
The cherry orchard / Anton Chekhov
Pygmalion / Bernard Shaw
Six characters in search of an author / Luigi Pirandello
Homecoming / Eugene O'Neill
The house of Bernarda Alba / Federico Garcia Lorca
Galileo / Bertolt Brecht
Death of a salesman / Arthur Miller
Cat on a hot tin roof / Tennessee Williams
The lesson / Eugene Ionesco
Endgame / Samuel Beckett
The zoo story / Edward Albee
A raisin in the sun / Lorraine Hansberry
Dutchman / Amiri Baraka
Landscape / Harold Pinter
Absurd person singular / Alan Ayckbourn
Death and the King's horseman / Wole Soyinka
Pantomime / Derek Walcott
Translations / Brian Friel
"Master Harold" and the boys / Athol Fugard
Top girls / Caryl Churchill
'night mother / Marsha Norman
Fences / August Wilson
M. Butterfly / David Henry Hwang
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