THE BEDFORD INTRODUCTION TO DRAMA
6th Edition
Bedford/St. Martins, 2009

THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE SELECTION WITH 54 CHRONOLOGICALLY ARRANGED PLAYS REPRESENTING EVERY MAJOR PERIOD FROM CLASSIC TIMES TO THE PRESENT.
This book includes the great classic playwrights and their plays, including several from the great period of Japanese drama. Many of the most important current playwrights are also included, such as Conor McPherson, Sara Ruhl, Lynn Nottage, and Suzan-Lori Parks. An important feature are the special casebooks. A stylistic casebook appears with a selection of nineteenth-century melodramas; a cultural casebook appears with George Bernard Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession; a production background casebook appears with Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, and an author's casebook appears with August Wilson's Fences and Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. Another cultural casebook on the Abbey Theatre is available online at www.bedfordstmartins.com/jacobus.

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