Compact, portable, and inexpensive, The Seagull Reader: Plays, Second Edition, offers 8 classic (and contemporary classic) plays, 2 of themDeath of a Salesman and A Raisin in the Sunnew 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