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PublisherBedford/Saint Martin's

ISBN-10131905479X

ISBN-139781319054793

eBay Product ID (ePID)6038861573

Product Key Features

Edition8

Book TitleBedford Introduction to Drama

Number of Pages1824 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicDrama, Anthologies (Multiple Authors), General

Publication Year2017

IllustratorYes

GenreLiterary Criticism, Drama, Language Arts & Disciplines, Literary Collections

AuthorLee A. Jacobus

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height2.1 in

Item Length9 in

Item Width7.4 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN2019-297840

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal808.2

Table Of Content*New to this Edition CONTENTS 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 Egyptian Drama Greek Drama Roman Drama Medieval Drama Renaissance Drama Late-Seventeenth - and Eighteenth-Century Drama Drama from the Nineteenth Century through the Turn of the Twentieth Century Drama in the Early and Mid-Twentieth Century Contemporary Drama Genres of Drama Tragedy Comedy Tragicomedy Analyzing a Play through the Elements of Drama: Lady Gregory''s The Rising of the Moon Plot Characterization Setting Dialogue Music Movement Theme Lady Gregory, The Rising of the Moon GREEK DRAMA The Development 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 Aeschylus, Agamemnon Agamemnon in Performance COMMENTARY: Lois Spatz, Oresteia: Trilogy Preserved Sophocles, Oedipus Rex Oedipus Rex in Performance COMMENTARIES: Aristotle, Poetics: Comedy and Epic and Tragedy Sigmund Freud, The Oedipus Complex Sophocles, Antigone Antigone in Performance COMMENTARY: Oliver Taplin, Emotion and Meaning in Greek Tragedy *Euripides, Medea Medea in Performance Aristophanes, Lysistrata Lysistrata in Performance ROMAN DRAMA Indigenous Sources 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 Japanese Drama The Medieval Stage The Medieval Actor Medieval Drama Timeline Hrosvitha, Dulcitius Dulcitius in Performance COMMENTARY: Sue-Ellen Case, Re-viewing Hrotsvit The Wakefield Master, The Second Shepherds'' Pageant The Second Shepherds'' Pageant in Performance Anonymous, Everyman Everyman in Performance RENAISSANCE DRAMA The Italian Theater Commedia dell''Arte Elizabethan Drama The Elizabethan Theater The Elizabethan Actor The Elizabethan Audience Female Characters on the English Stage The Masque Spanish Drama Renaissance Drama Timeline Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus Doctor Faustus in Performance William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night''s Dream A Midsummer Night''s Dream in Performance COMMENTARY: Linda Bamber, On a Midsummer Night''s Dream William Shakespeare, Hamlet Hamlet in Performance COMMENTARY: A.C. Bradley, Hamlet''s Melancholy Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Life''s a Dream Life''s a Dream in Performance COMMENTARY: &

SynopsisWith plays dating all the way back to ancient Greece, Bedford Introduction to Drama teaches you to think critically about drama while learning about the history, theater design, staging, and acting style for each era of the theater.

LC Classification NumberPN6112.B36 2018