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... Drama Fest 08

dramatic literature

Theatre


Drama: A Guide to the Study of Plays by J. L. Styan; Peter Lang, 2000 - Chapter 1: —the Nature of Drama— - Chapter 2: —the Elements of Speech—(King Lear, 4.6.153) - Chapter 3: (The Merchant of Venice, 2.5.1)—seeing and Perceiving— - Chapter 4: —the Shape of the Stage— - Chapter 5: —the Player and His Part— - Chapter 6: —story, Structure and Theme— - Chapter 7: —genre, Mood and Mode— - Chapter 8: —realism and Beyond— Preface to Drama: An Introduction to Dramatic Literature and Theater Art by Charles W. Cooper; Ronald Press, 1955 [ ... - IV: Hedda Gabler: - Act Two - Act Three - Act Four - V: Candida: - Act I - Act II ... ] - VII: The Glass Menagerie - Scene 1 - Scene 2 - Scene 3 - Scene 5 - Scene 6 - Scene 7 - VIII: The Crucible - Act One: (An Overture) - Act Two - Act Four [ amdrama2 ]

The Play: A Critical Anthology by Eric Bentley; Prentice Hall, 1951 - 1: Cyrano de Bergerac - 2: The Importance of Being Earnest - 3: The Miser - 4: Twelfth Night - 5: Othello - 6: Antigone - 7: Ghosts - 8: The Ghost SonatA· 1907 - 9: Death of a Salesman (amdrama)

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... Bedford/St. Martin's; 5 Reprint edition (February 21, 2005) compare with new ed. !! Paperback: 1872 pages ISBN-10: 0312445768 ISBN-13: 978-0312445768

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biblio + Books 413 Playscript

2004 Dramlit textbook *

eNotes: Masters ***

Poetics *

Modern Theories

http://www.theatrehistory.com/russian/

O'Neill

List of texts:
Aeschylus, The Agamemnon (trans Robert Fagles, in Penguin) 
Sophocles, Antigone (trans David Grene, Chicago UP)
Euripides, Medea (trans Rex Warner, Chicago UP)
Aristophanes, Lysistrata (trans Alan Sommerstein, Penguin) 
Hrosvita, Dulcitius (trans K.M. Wilson, in Bedford - should find another source)
Wakefield Master, The Second Shepherd’s Play (not sure about modernized version yet) 
Christopher Marlowe, The Jew of Malta
William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night and The Merchant of Venice
John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi
Lope de Vega, Fuente Ovejuna (not sure about trans.)
Moliere, School for Wives (not sure about trans.)
Aphra Behn, The Rover
Richard Sheridan, School for Scandal
Henrik Ibsen, Hedda Gabler (trans Rolf Fjelde, Signet) 
August Strindberg, The Father (not sure about trans)
Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard (not sure about trans)
George Bernard Shaw, Heartbreak House.
John Millington Synge, Playboy of the Western World
Sophie Treadwell, Machinal
Luigi Pirandello, Henry IV (trans by Edward Storer, Dutton) 
Eugene O’Neill, Moon for the Misbegotten.
Bertolt Brecht, Mother Courage and her Children (trans Eric Bentley, Grove)
Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire.
Arthur Miller, All My Sons.
Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot.
Wole Soyinka, Death and the King’s Horseman.
David Mamet, American Buffalo.
Harold Pinter, Betrayal
Sam Shepard, Curse of the Starving Class.
Brian Friel, Faith Healer. 
Anna Deavere Smith, Fires in the Mirror.
Dael Orlandersmith, Yellowman
Yasmina Reza, The Unexpected Man (trans Christopher Hampton, Faber) 
Tom Stoppard, Arcadia. 
Caryl Churchill, Far Away.
Tony Kushner, Caroline, or Change. 
Backwards and Forwards: A Technical Manual for Reading Plays by David Ball; Southern Illinois University Press, 1983 : - Part One: Shape - 1: What Happens That Makes Something Else Happen? - 2: And What Happens Next? - 3: But Do It Backwards - 4: Stasis and Intrusion - 5: Obstacle, Conflict - 6: Ignorance is Bliss (or: the Very Cause of Everyone's Lunacy About Hamlet) - 7: Things Theatrical - Part Two: Methods - 8: Exposition - 9: Forwards: Hungry for Next - 10: Missing Persons (character) - 11: Image - 15: Families - 16: Generalities: Mood, Atmosphere - 17: The Unique Factor - 18: Changing Eras - 19: Climax - 20: Beginnings/Endings - 21: Rereading - 22: What Next?

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