Plays for the Theatre
Enhance your course with plays in this companion anthology to THE ESSENTIAL THEATRE. The plays are correlated to synopses in the main text.
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Featuring both historical and contemporary drama, this collection offers a selection of plays that have shaped today's theater and includes works that exemplify cultural diversity. Each play is accompanied by introductory background. For this eighth edition, Brockett (University of Texas) and Ball (University of the Incarnate Word) present four additional plays, including a Japanese Noh drama and an African drama by Nobel Prize-winner Wole Soyinka. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
1. Oedipus Rex by Sophocles, English version by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald. 2. Noah and His Sons by Anonymous, edited by Oscar G. Brockett. 3. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare. 4. The Servant of Two Masters by Carlo Goldoni, English version by Edward J. Dent. 5. Tartuffe by Moli're (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin), Translated into English by Richard Wilbur. 6. A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen, Translated by William Archer (with emendations by Oscar G. Brockett). 7. The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde. 8. The Hairy Ape by Eugene O'Neill. 9. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams. 10. Buried Child by Sam Shepard. 11. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom by August Wilson. 12. Roosters by Milcha Sanchez-Scott. 13. How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel. 14. The Shrine in the Fields by Zeami. 15. The Strong Breed by Wole Soyinka.
