THE BEDFORD INTRODUCTION TO DRAMA, 6th Edition

Bedford/St. Martins
Introduction: Thinking About Drama
Lady Gregory, The Rising of the Moon


THE GREEKS
Greek Drama
Greek Stage
Greek Actors
Aeschylus, Agamemnon
Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
Sophocles, Antigone
Euripides, Medea
Aristophanes, Lysistrata


THE ROMANS
Roman Drama
The Roman Stage
Roman Actors
Plautus, The Twin Menaechmi, Act. III
Terence, The Brothers, Act V
Seneca, Thyestes, Act V, Sc. ii.


MEDIEVAL DRAMA
The Role of the Church
The Medieval Stage
The Medieval Actor
Hrosvitha, Dulcitius
Anonymous, Second Shepherd's Pageant
Anonymous, Everyman


RENAISSANCE DRAMA
The Italian Theater
Commedia dell’Arte
The Elizabethan Theater
The Elizabethan Actor
Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus
William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
William Shakespeare, Hamlet
William Shakespeare, Othello
Ben Jonson, Masque of Blacknesse
Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Life Is a Dream


LATE SEVENTEENTH- AND EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY DRAMA
The Restoration: Rebirth of Drama
Theater on the Continent: Neoclassicism
Theater in England
The Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Actor
Moliere, Tartuffe
Aphra Behn, The Rover; Or, The Banished Cavaliers
Chikamatsu, The Love Suicides at Sonezaki
William Congreve, The Way of the World


NINETEENTH-CENTURY DRAMA THROUGH THE TURN OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
The Nineteenth-Century Theater
The Nineteenth-Century ActorHenrik Ibsen, A Doll House
August Strindberg, Miss Julie
Casebook on Melodrama

    Anna Cora Mowatt, Fashion, Act V
    George Aiken, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Act VI
    Dion Boucicault, Notes on Acting
    Bronson Howard, Shenandoah, Act III

Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard
Bernard Shaw, Mrs. Warren's Profession
Casebook on the “Woman Question” in the Late Nineteenth Century
    John Stuart Mill, On the Subjection of Women
    August Strindberg, The Woman Question” Women’s Rights
    Johan Thorsten Sellin, Marriage and Divorce in Sweden
    Richard Panofsky, A Nineteenth-Century Husband’s Letter to His Wife
    Flora Tristan, London Journal: Prostitutes in London ...All the Streets Are Full of Them
    A Letter to the Times (London) from a Prostitute
    Barbara Mell Hobson, Successful Madams

DRAMA IN THE EARLY AND MID-TWENTIETH CENTURY
Realism and Myth
Myth and Culture
The Early and Mid-Twentieth-Century Stage
The Early and Mid-Twentieth-Century Actor
John Millington Synge, Riders to the Sea
Susan Glaspell, Trifles
Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author
Federico Garcia Lorca, The House of Bernarda Alba
Eugene O'Neill, Desire Under the Elms
Bertolt Brecht, Mother Courage
Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
Casebook on the Production of Death of a Salesman

    Jo Mielzener, Designing a Play: Death of a Salesman
    Brenda Murphy, Death of a Salesman: the Design Process
    Brenda Murphy, Racial Consciousness in Casting Death of a Salesman
    Arthur Miller, From The American Theater
    June Schluetter and James K. Flanagan, Memorable Willy
    Catherine Diamond, Death of a Salesman in Taipei

Ionesco, The Bald Soprano
Samuel Beckett, Krapp's Last Tape
Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun
Wole Soyinka, The Strong Breed


CONTEMPORARY DRAMA
Experimentation
Theater of Cruelty
Environmental Theater
“Poor Theater”
Theater of Images
Gay and Lesbian Theater and Other New Ensembles
Experiments with Theater Space
The Contemporary Theater
The Contemporary Actor
Luis Valdez, Zoot Suit
Harold Pinter, The HomecomingEdward Albee, The Zoo Story
Sam Shepard, Buried Child
Brian Friel, Faith Healer
Athol Fugard, ““MASTER HAROLD”” . . . and the Boys
David Mamet, Glengarry Glen Ross
August Wilson, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
August Wilson, Fences
Casebook on August Wilson

    Mark William Rocha, August Wilson and the Four B’s: Influences
    Harry J. Elam Jr., August Wilson
    Romare Bearden, Mill Hand’s Lunch Bucket and Piano Lesson
    Amiri Baraka, Ka’Ba
    Ma Rainey and Lovie Austin, Bad Luck Blues
    Elisabeth J. Heard, An Interview with August Wilson on Playwriting
    Peter Wolfe, August Wilson: Conclusion

Tony Kushner, Angels in America: Millenium Approaches 1992
Paula Vogel, How I Learned to Drive 1997
Caryl Churchill, Far Away 2000
Moises Kaufman, The Laramie Project 2000
Lynn Nottage, Intimate Apparel 2003
Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife 2003
Conor McPherson, Shining City 2004
Sara Ruhl, The Clean House 2004
Suzan-Lori Parks, sample from 365 Days 365 Plays 2006

Appendices
Writing About Drama
Glossary of Dramatic Terms
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