Seagull Reader: Plays

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Author: Joseph Kelly

ISBN-10: 0393933245

ISBN-13: 9780393933246

Category: Drama Anthologies

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Compact, portable, and inexpensive, The Seagull Reader: Plays, Second Edition, offers 8 classic (and contemporary classic) plays, 2 of them—Death of a Salesman and A Raisin in the Sun—new to this edition.

AcknowledgmentsviiNote on DatesxIntroductionxiWhat Is Drama?xiDramatic Conventions Then and NowxiiCultural ContextxiiiPage versus StagexivThe Parts of a PlayxviPlotxviCharacterxixSpectaclexxiSymbolismxxiiiTragedyxxvComedyxxviiiMajor Moments in the History of TheaterxxixGreek TheaterxxixElizabethan TheaterxxxiiNineteenth-Century Middle-Class TheaterxxxvThe Provincetown PlayersxxxviContemporary American TheaterxxxviiiRegional TheatersxlConclusionxlPlaysSophocles, Oedipus the King3William Shakespeare, Hamlet54Henrik Ibsen, A Doll House182Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest254Susan Glaspell, Trifles317Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie332August Wilson, Fences400David Henry Hwang, M. Butterfly469Biographical Sketches535Glossary541Permissions Acknowledgments547