Synopses & Reviews
A dozen plays that instructors want to teach and students like to read are gathered in this portable and economical volume.
About the Author
JANET E. GARDNER (Ph. D. University of Massachusetts, Amherst) is Associate Professor of English at University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth where she teaches courses in drama, British and world literature, and writing. She has published numerous articles, reviews, and chapters on contemporary drama, especially modern British drama and the work of Caryl Churchill. She has received several grants and awards for research into current teaching technologies, and is at work on a study of drama and theatre pedagogy.
Table of Contents
Preface for Instructors Sophocles, Oedipus Rex (Translated by Dudley Fitts & Robert Fitzgerald)
Aristophanes, Lysistrata (Translated by Dudley Fitts)
William Shakespeare, Hamlet
Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House (Translated by Rolf Fjelde)
Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard (Translated by Carol Rocamora)
Susan Glaspell, Trifles
Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
Samuel Beckett, Endgame
Caryl Churchill, Top Girls
Athol Fugard, "MASTER HAROLD" . . . and the Boys
August Wilson, The Piano Lesson
A Brief History of Western Theater
Biographical and Textual Notes
Selected List of Video Resources
Glossary of Dramatic and Critical Terms