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Types of Drama: Plays and Contexts, 8/E
Sylvan Barnet, Tufts University
William E. Burto, University of Massachusetts - Lowell
Lesley Ferris, Ohio State University
Gerald Rabkin, Rutgers University

ISBN-10: 0321065069
ISBN-13: 9780321065063

Publisher: Longman
Copyright: 2001
Format: Paper; 1584 pp
Published: 01/03/2001
Status: Instock

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Types of Drama, 8/e offers a full range of plays from ancient Greece to the present. Like the earlier editions, this collection gives strong representation of such familiar authors as the Greek dramatists, Shakespeare, Ibsen, and O'Neill as well as to contemporary classic authors such as Miller, Williams and Churchill. New to the eighth edition are twenty-eight works including a commedia dell'arte scenario, a Nóh play, an opera by Gertrude Stein, a farce by Dario Fo, Elizabeth Robins's neglected Votes for Women, and Suzan-Lori-Parks's newest play, In the Blood.

NEW - <F75BS>NEW! Two New Co-Authors! Lesley Ferris, Ohio State University, and Gerald Rabkin, Rutgers University, both of theatre departments have contributed their expertise to the eighth edition.

NEW - <F75BS>NEW! More Plays and More New Plays! The eighth edition increases the number of plays to fifty-one, almost half of which are new. Most of these additional plays are from the last quarter of the twentieth century, but important earlier works (for example, Hamlet, Tartuffe, and The Cid) have also been added. Pg.___

NEW - <F75BS>NEW! More Contemporary Plays! The 20th century coverage has been expanded and revised to include more plays, including Caryl Churchill's Top Girls, Anna Deveare Smith's Fires in the Mirror, Tony Kushner's Angels in America, Part I: Millenium Approaches, and Suzan Lori Parks's In the Blood. Pg.___

NEW - <F75BS>NEW! Period Divisions. The anthology (Part II) is divided into nine historical periods that sketch the historical and cultural context of the plays. Pg.___

NEW - <F75BS>NEW! Full bibliography and list of video resources. For further reference, new lists of bibliographic and video resources are included at the end of the text. Pg.___

Revised Introduction. The introduction (Part I) has been revised by new co-editors Lesley Ferris and Gerald Rabkin. A new play, My Brazil, by Rachel Rosenthal is included. Pg.___

Revised Section on Writing about Drama. Expert advice to undergraduates about how to write analyses and reviews about drama has been extended. This discussion now includes now includes advice concerning writing about a film-version of a play and writing a documented research paper. The number of sample undergraduate essays has been increased from two to four. The material on research now includes coverage of electronic and Internet sources. Pg.__

“The Play on the Stage” and “The Play on the Page.” Asks and encourages students to think critically about drama performed on the stage as well as on the page. Pg.___

Photo Essays. Give students an opportunity to see visual illustrations of a variety of dramatic subjects, including "Staging Shakespeare, Than and Now," and "Representations of Gender in the Theater." Pg.___

I. GETTING STARTED.

What is Drama?

Whom Do You Seek (Quem Quaeritis?), Anonymous.

Mistakes, Conflicts, and Audience-Awareness.

Plot, Character, Theme.

In Brief: How To Read a Play.

Trifles, Susan Glaspell.

A Second Short Play For Study: A Performer-Generated Script.

My Brazil: A Recital. Rachel Rosenthal.

Some Kinds of Drama

II. A COLLECTION OF PLAYS.

Classical Greek Theater: With a Note on Roman Drama.

Oedipus Rex, Sophocles.

Antigone, Sophocles.

Medea, Euripedes.

Lysistrata, Aristophanes.

Medieval Theater: England and Japan.

The Second Shepherds' Play, The Wakefield Master.

Everyman, Anonymous.

Dojoji, Anonymous.

English Renaissance Theater.

Doctor Faustus, Christopher Marlowe.

A Midsummer Night's Dream, William Shakespeare.

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark William Shakespeare.

Seventeenth-Century Drama: England and the Continent.

Fuente Ovejuna, Lope de Vega.

The Cid: A Tragedy, Pierre Corneille.

The Insane Asylum: A Commedia dell'arte Scenario, Anonymous.

Tartuffe, Moliere.

The Rover; or, The Banished Cavaliers Aphra Behn.

Classic Modern Drama.

A Doll's House, Henrik Ibsen.

Miss Julie, August Strindberg.

The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People, Oscar Wilde.

The Cherry Orchard, Anton Chekhov.

Major Barbara, Bernard Shaw.

American Theater Comes of Age.

The Emperor Jones, Eugene O'Neill.

Machinal, Sophie Treadwell.

Waiting for Lefty, Clifford Odets.

The Mother of Us All, Gertrude Stein.

Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller.

The American Musical.

Gypsy: A Musical, Arthur Laurents, Stephen Sondheim, and Jule Styne.

Suddenly Last Summer, Tennessee Williams.

The Sandbox, Edward Albee.

African American Theater.

Funnyhouse of a Negro, Adrienne Kennedy.

Hispanic American Theater.

Los Vendidos, Luis Valdez

The World Stage in the Twentieth Century.

Women's Theater.

Votes for Women, Elizabeth Robins.

Purgatory, William Butler Yeats.

The Good Woman of Setzuan, Bertolt Brecht.

The Dumb Waiter, Harold Pinter.

Krapp's Last Tape: A Play in One Act, Samuel Beckett.

The Bacchae of Euripides: A Communion Rite, Wole Soyinka.

We Won't Pay, We Won't Pay! Dario Fo.

Pantomime, Derek Walcott.

Top Girls, Caryl Churchill.

The Real Thing, Tom Stoppard.

Contemporary American Visions.

True West, Sam Shepard

Glengarry Glen Ross, David Mamet

Terminal, Susan Yankowitz and Joseph Chaikin.

Asian American Theater.

The Dance and the Railroad, David Henry Hwang.

Fences, August Wilson.

The Conduct of Life, Maria Irene Fornes.

Fires in the Mirror, Anna Deveare Smith.

Angels in America, Part I: The Millennium Approaches, Tony Kushner.

In the Blood, Suzan-Lori Parks.

III. WRITING ABOUT DRAMA.

Writing About Drama?

Basic Matters.

Writing about a Film Based on a Play.

A Sample Student Essay, Using Sources: The Women in Death of a Salesman.

Using Electronic Sources.

A Glossary of Dramatic Terms.

Bibliography.

List of Video Resources.

Acknowledgments.

Index of Authors and Titles.

Introduction to Theatre [SUPPLEMENTAL PRODUCTS] (Theatre)
Introduction to Drama (Literature & Creative Writing)

Companion Website with Online Practice Tests, 8/E
Barnet, Berman, Burto & Cain
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ISBN-10: 032107789X | ISBN-13: 9780321077899
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Exam Copy, 8/E
Barnet, Berman, Burto & Cain
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ISBN-10: 0321077873 | ISBN-13: 9780321077875

Instructor's Manual Online, 8/E
Barnet
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ISBN-10: 0321121988 | ISBN-13: 9780321121981
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Analyzing Literature: A Guide for Students (Valuepack item only), 2/E
McGee
©2002 | Longman | Paper | Instock
ISBN-10: 0321093380 | ISBN-13: 9780321093387
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Essential Study Card for Grammar and Documentation
Longman
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Evaluating Plays on Film and Video (ValuePack Item Only)
Welsh & Morawski
©2004 | Longman | Paper; 78 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0321187946 | ISBN-13: 9780321187949

Explore Theatre: A Backstage Pass Interactive DVD
O'HARA
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Glossary of Literary and Critical Terms (Valuepack item only), A
Jacobs
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ISBN-10: 0321126912 | ISBN-13: 9780321126917

InterWrite PRS RF (Personal Response System)
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©2005 | Longman | Electronic Supplement | Instock
ISBN-10: 0205436951 | ISBN-13: 9780205436958

Longman Electronic Testbank for Literature (CD ROM version), The
Jacobs
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Jacobs
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Longman Journal for Creative Writing (Valuepack item only)
Johnston
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ISBN-10: 0321095405 | ISBN-13: 9780321095404

Longman Literature Timeline (Generic Laminated Grid) (Valuepack item only), The
Jacobs
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ISBN-10: 0321143159 | ISBN-13: 9780321143150

MLA Documentation Style Guide: A Concise Guide for Students (Valuepack Item Only), 2/E
Greer
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ISBN-10: 0321243579 | ISBN-13: 9780321243577

Merriam Webster's Reader's Handbook: Your Complete Guide to Literary Terms
Webster
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ISBN-10: 0321105419 | ISBN-13: 9780321105417

MyLiteratureLab Student Access Code Card (for valuepacks)
Pearson
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ISBN-10: 0205696252 | ISBN-13: 9780205696253
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New American Webster Handy College Dictionary, The, 3/E
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ISBN-10: 0451181662 | ISBN-13: 9780451181664

ResearchNavigator.com Guide: English (Valuepack item only)
Branscomb & Trim
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ISBN-10: 0321496019 | ISBN-13: 9780321496010

ResearchNavigator.com Guide: Mass Communication, Theatre, and Film (Valuepack item only)
Roat & Barr
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ISBN-10: 0205524141 | ISBN-13: 9780205524143

Responding to Literature: A Writer's Journal (Valuepack Item Only)
Kline
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ISBN-10: 0321095421 | ISBN-13: 9780321095428

Student's Guide to Getting Published, A
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Teaching Literature Online, 2/E
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Workshop Guide to Creative Writing, A (Valuepack item only)
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iClicker Classroom Response System
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Allyn & Bacon Introduction to Theatre Study Site (Open Access)
Allyn & Bacon
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