The Longman Anthology of Drama and Theater A Global Perspective (REPRINT),9780321291387

The Longman Anthology of Drama and Theater A Global Perspective (REPRINT)

by ; ;
Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780321291387
ISBN10: 0321291387
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2004-07-12
Publisher(s): Longman
  • Free Shipping Icon

    This Item Qualifies for Free Shipping!*

    *Excludes marketplace orders.

List Price: $170.10

Rent Textbook

Select for Price
Add to Cart
There was a problem. Please try again later.

New Textbook

We're Sorry
Sold Out

Used Textbook

We're Sorry
Sold Out

eTextbook

We're Sorry
Not Available

Buy from our Marketplace starting at $3.08

How Marketplace Works:

  • This item is offered by an independent seller and not shipped from our warehouse
  • Item details like edition and cover design may differ from our description; see seller's comments before ordering.
  • Sellers much confirm and ship within two business days; otherwise, the order will be cancelled and refunded.
  • Marketplace purchases cannot be returned to eCampus.com. Contact the seller directly for inquiries; if no response within two days, contact customer service.
  • Additional shipping costs apply to Marketplace purchases. Review shipping costs at checkout.

Summary

The Longman Anthology of World Drama and Theatre is a fully-integrated text/anthology of drama with a global emphasis for the Introduction to Drama course. Divided into two parts: Part One covers the origins of drama: genres, conventions, styles and descriptions of roles, and Part Two is a six chapter anthology of plays, including plays from around the world with a solid core of western plays. Each chapter in Part Two includes visuals, maps, timelines, biographical and contextual headnotes, and an overview of the history and conventions of each period that help students gain a better understanding of the drama and theater being presented.

Table of Contents

Preface xi
PART I: The Theoretical and Practical Foundations of Theater
1(102)
Stories, Rituals, and Theater: A Foundation for the Theatrical Arts
3(30)
The Theatrical Impulse
3(1)
The Storyteller
3(1)
The Barong or Trance Dance of Bali
4(2)
Forum: ``The Theatre As It Was and As It Is''
5(1)
Robert Edmund Jones
A Broadway Musical
6(1)
Rituals Versus Theater
6(5)
An Autumnal Ritual in America
8(1)
Forum: ``Acting in Everyday Life and Everyday Life in Acting''
9(2)
Victor Turner
The Origins of Theater
11(1)
Common Ground for Uncommon Cultures
11(5)
Center Stage: The Abydos Passion Play
12(4)
Reading a Play
16(1)
Master Pierre Pathelin
17(16)
Anonymous
From Theater to Drama
33(34)
The Dramatic Impulse
33(1)
The Poetics of Aristotle
34(2)
Forum: ``From The Poetics''
35(1)
Aristotle
The Elements of Drama
36(10)
Forum: ``General Considerations of Theatrical Entertainment in China''
37(9)
Tao-Ching Hsu
The Principal Genres of Drama
46(15)
Spotlight: Melodrama and Farce
54(2)
Forum: ``From `The Mythos of Spring: Comedy'''
56(5)
Northrop Frye
Styles and Conventions
61(6)
From the Page to the Stage: Theater Artists at Work
67(36)
Choices
67(1)
The Actor
67(5)
Forum: ``When Acting Is An Art''
70(2)
Constantin Stanislavsky
The Playwright
72(8)
Forum: ``Some Thoughts on Playwriting''
75(5)
Thornton Wilder
The Director
80(9)
Forum: ``Julie Taymor on Directing the Lion King''
82(7)
The Designer
89(11)
Forum: ``Designing a Play: Death of a Salesman''
96(4)
Jo Mielziner
The Critic
100(3)
PART II: An Anthology of the World's Drama
103(1656)
The Theater of Greece and Rome
105(146)
Greece
106(2)
The Origins of the Theater in Greece
108(2)
Spotlight: The Hellenistic Theater
110(1)
The Greek Mind
110(1)
Playwrights and Acting
111(4)
Spotlight: The Conventions of Greek Theater
112(3)
Prometheus Bound
115(17)
Aeschylus
Oedipus the King
132(30)
Sophocles
Spotlight: The Curse on the House of Thebes
133(24)
Center Stage: The First Performance of Oedipus the King
157(2)
Center Stage: Oedipus the King at the Teatro Olympico, 1585
159(1)
Forums: ``Ode to Oedipus''
160(1)
Tyrone Guthrie
``Guthrie Directs `Ritual' Performance of Oedipus Rex at Edinburgh Fete''
161(1)
Patrick Gibbs
Medea
162(25)
Euripides
Lysistrata
187(27)
Aristophanes
Spotlight: Greek Old Comedy
213(1)
Rome
214(2)
The Development of Roman Theater
216(1)
Playwrights and Popular Entertainments
216(1)
Theaters and Acting
217(1)
The Fall of Rome
218(1)
Brothers
219(32)
Terence
Forum: ``The Art of Poetry'' (Ars Poetica)
245(6)
Horace
The Theater of India, China, and Japan
251(156)
India
254(2)
The Origins of Indian Drama
256(4)
Forum: ``From The Natyasastra''
257(3)
Bharata
The Types of Indian Drama
260(1)
The Conventions of Classical Indian Theater
260(1)
Dance and Folk Drama in India
261(1)
The Modern Theater of India
262(1)
The Recognition of Sakuntala
263(44)
Kalidasa
The Post Office
307(15)
Rabindranath Tagore
Forum: ``The Formal Characteristics of [Indian] Folk Theater''
319(3)
Jacob Srampickal
China
322(2)
The History of Chinese Theatre
324(5)
Center Stage: A Night at the Chinese Opera: The Hua-Gu Opera of Hunan
327(2)
The Conventions of Chinese Theater
329(4)
Autumn in the Palace of Han
333(13)
Ma Chih-yuan
The Qing Ding Pearl
346(12)
Anonymous
Forum: ``The World of Chinese Drama''
354(4)
Tao-Ching Hsu
Japan
358(2)
The Noh Theater
360(7)
Forum: ``Style and the Flower'' From The Kadensho
362(4)
Zeami
Forum: ``House and Family'' [Suzuki on the Noh Theater]
366(1)
Tadashi Suzuki
The Kabuki Theater
367(5)
The Contemporary Japanese Theater: Shingeki
372(2)
Komachi at Sekidera
374(10)
Zeami
Center Stage: The Tanabata Festival of Japan
382(2)
Kanjincho
384(12)
Namiki Gohei III
The Man Who Turned into a Stick
396(11)
Kobo Abe
The Early Modern Theater
407(348)
The Middle Ages
408(2)
Rites and Folk Drama
410(1)
Religious Drama
410(1)
Performance Conventions
411(4)
The Brome Play of Abraham and Isaac
415(8)
Anonymous
Three Morality Plays
423(1)
Everyman
423(2)
Anonymous
Mankind
425(1)
Anonymous
The Apple Tree
425(35)
Anonymous
The European Renaissance
460(2)
The Renaissance Mind
462(4)
Center Stage: Commedia Dell'arte
463(2)
Center Stage: Native American Performance
465(1)
The Need for Order
466(3)
Center Stage: The Masque
467(2)
Hierarchies Onstage and Off
469(1)
The Role of Tragedy
470(1)
Playhouses and Scenery
470(1)
Acting
471(1)
Playwriting: The Neoclassicists versus the Romantics
471(5)
England
474(2)
A Midsummer Night's Dream
476(47)
William Shakespeare
Spotlight: Making Shakespeare's Language User-Friendly
481(33)
Center Stage: The Midsummer Festivals of Europe
514(1)
Center Stage: A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Globe Theatre
515(3)
Forums [Four Reviews]: ``A Midsummer Night's Dream in 1853''
518(1)
``A Review of a Midsummer Night's Dream''
519(1)
Robert Speight
``Moonbeams and Menaces''
520(1)
William A. Henry III
``Shakespeare as Carnival in Amazonean `Dream'''
521(2)
Mel Gussow
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
523(65)
William Shakespeare
Spotlight: Shakespeare's Two Theaters
584(2)
Spain and the Americas
586(2)
Life's A Dream
588(32)
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Spotlight: The Spanish Theater: The Corrales
617(1)
Center Stage: Theater in Mesoamerica
617(3)
The Divine Narcissus
620(14)
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
Center Stage: The Yaqui Easter of the Southwest United States
629(3)
France
632(2)
Tartuffe
634(38)
Moliere
Spotlight: The French Theater
666(1)
Center Stage: The (Third) Opening Night of Tartuffe
666(2)
Center Stage: Tartuffe at the Theatre du Soleil, 1995
668(2)
Spotlight: The Secret Life of a Con Man: Antony Sher on Playing Tartuffe (An Interview By Francesca Simon)
670(2)
The Late-Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
672(5)
Spotlight: The Comedy of Manners
674(2)
Spotlight: The Conventions of the Restoration Theater
676(1)
Sentimental Comedy
677(2)
Forum: ``A Comparison Between Sentimental and Laughing Comedy''
678(1)
Oliver Goldsmith
Laughing Comedy
679(1)
Bourgeois Tragedy
679(3)
Forum: ``Dedication to the London Merchant''
680(2)
George Lillo
The Rover
682(42)
Aphra Behn
She Stoops to Conquer
724(31)
Oliver Goldsmith
The Modern Theater
755(494)
Romanticism
756(2)
The Melodrama
758(1)
The Romantic Revolution and Hernani
759(2)
Hernani
761(33)
Victor Hugo
Uncle Tom's Cabin
794(38)
George Aikin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Spotlight: The Minstrel Show
828(1)
Forums: ``A Critique of Uncle Tom's Cabin''
829(1)
James Gordon Bennett
``'The Prologue' From The World's Greatest Hit: Uncle Tom's Cabin''
830(2)
Harry Birdoff
Realism and Naturalism
832(2)
The Well-Made Play
834(1)
Influences on Realism
834(2)
The Problem Play
836(1)
The Rise of the Director
836(5)
Forum: ``The Sociology of Modern Drama''
837(4)
George Lukacs
Naturalism
841(1)
The Fathers of Realism: Ibsen, Strindberg, and Chekhov
842(1)
Intimate Theaters
843(1)
The Second Generation of Realists
844(1)
Social Drama in Asia and Latin America
845(6)
Forum: ``The Theater of Revolt''
846(5)
Robert Brustein
A Doll's House
851(32)
Henrik Ibsen
Hedda Gabler
883(34)
Henrik Ibsen
Miss Julie
917(25)
August Strindberg
The Cherry Orchard
942(24)
Anton Chekhov
Riders to the Sea
966(8)
John Millington Synge
Center Stage: The Dingle Boys of Kerry
973(1)
The Importance of Being Earnest
974(27)
Oscar Wilde
Major Barbara
1001(55)
[George] Bernard Shaw
Trifles
1056(8)
Susan Glaspell
The Glass Menagerie
1064(30)
Tennessee Williams
Forum: ``Production Notes''
1092(2)
Tennessee Williams
Expressionism and the Epic Theater
1094(2)
Expressionism
1096(1)
The Epic Theater
1096(3)
The Hairy Ape
1099(22)
Eugene O'Neill
Spotlight: Theater in the Industrial Age
1120(1)
The Good Woman of Setzuan
1121(38)
Bertolt Brecht
Forum: ``Alienation Effects in Chinese Acting''
1155(4)
Bertolt Brecht
Death of a Salesman
1159(47)
Arthur Miller
Forum: ``Tragedy and The Common Man''
1200(1)
Arthur Miller
Forums [Three Reviews] ``Death of a Salesman: Powerful Tragedy''
1201(1)
William Hawkins
``Even as You and I''
1202(2)
John Mason Brown
``Willy Loman Gets China Territory''
1204(2)
Christopher S. Wren
Absurdism
1206(5)
Spotlight: Waiting for Godot: The Modern Masterpiece
1209(2)
The American Dream
1211(23)
Edward Albee
Forum: ``The Significance of the Absurd''
1228(6)
Martin Esslin
Rockaby
1234(6)
Samuel Beckett
The Man Who Turned into a Dog
1240(9)
Osvaldo Dragun
Spotlight: Popular Theater in Latin America
1246(3)
The Theater of Africa and the African Diaspora
1249(204)
Africa
1250(2)
The Roots of African Theater
1252(1)
Postcolonial Drama in Africa
1253(2)
The Conventions of African Theater
1255(1)
Woza Albert!
1256(22)
Percy Mtwa
Mbongeni Ngema
Barney Simon
Center Stage: South African Township Theater
1276(2)
``Master Harold'' ... and the Boys
1278(23)
Athol Fugard
Spotlight: South Africa's Market Theatre and the Independent Theater Phenomenon
1300(1)
Death and the King's Horseman
1301(33)
Wole Soyinka
Center Stage: Yoruban Obatala Festival in Ede, Nigeria, West Africa
1329(2)
Forum: ``The Fourth Stage: Through the Mysteries of Ogun to the Origin of Yoruba Tragedy''
1331(3)
Wole Soyinka
African American Theater
1334(4)
A Raisin in the Sun
1338(37)
Lorraine Hansberry
``The Last Mama-on-the-Couch Play'' From the Colored Museum
1375(4)
George C. Wolfe
Slave Ship
1379(9)
Amiri Baraka
Everett LeRoi Jones
Forum: ``The Revolutionary Theatre''
1386(2)
Amiri Baraka
Fences
1388(32)
August Wilson
The Caribbean
1420(3)
Cuba
1423(1)
Puerto Rico
1423(1)
Haiti and Jamaica
1424(1)
Trinidad-Tobago
1424(2)
Ti-Jean and His Brothers
1426(27)
Derek Walcott
Center Stage: The Trinidad Carnival
1450(3)
The Contemporary Theater
1453(306)
Influences on Contemporary Thought
1453(2)
Postmodernism and the Theater
1455(1)
Artaud and the Theater of Cruelty
1456(1)
Theater Collectives and Alternative Theater
1457(2)
Contemporary Playwriting
1459(1)
Acting in Contemporary Plays
1460(1)
Contemporary Dramatic Criticism: Deconstructionism and Others
1461(3)
The Contemporary Western World
1464(2)
Six Characters in Search of an Author
1466(26)
Luigi Pirandello
Latin America
1492(2)
A Solid Home
1494(10)
Elena Garro
Center Stage: Dia de Los Muertos in Mexico
1502(2)
No Saco Nada de la Escuela
1504(15)
Luis Valdez
Forum: ``From Theatre of the Oppressed''
1515(4)
Augusto Boal
Paper Flowers
1519(28)
Egon Wolff
Forum: ``The Popular Theater: Historic and Idealogical Considerations''
1544(3)
Domingo Piga T.
Medeaplay
1547(6)
Heiner Muller
Forum: ``From The Theatre of Images''
1550(3)
Bonnie Marranca
Buried Child
1553(32)
Sam Shepard
The Dance and the Railroad
1585(15)
David Henry Hwang
Top Girls
1600(31)
Caryl Churchill
The Great Celestial Cow
1631(24)
Sue Townsend
One for the Road
1655(9)
Harold Pinter
Mud
1664(17)
Maria Irene Fornes
Forum: ``From Acting Out: Feminist Performances''
1678(3)
Linda Hart
Peggy Phelan
Personal Effects
1681(8)
Griselda Gambaro
Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches
1689(36)
Tony Kushner
From Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992
1725(34)
Anna Deavere Smith
Forum: ``The Boys Don't Count: Or Why Won't Shakespeare Put His Men in Dresses?''
1754(5)
Lynn M. Thompson
APPENDIX A: The Student as Critic
1759(7)
The Production Review
1759(2)
Critical Essays
1761(2)
A Few Technical Notes
1763(1)
General Questions About a Play and Its Performance
1764(1)
A Sample Outline for a Critical Essay on Ti-Jean and His Brothers
1764(2)
APPENDIX B: Glossary of Terms
1766(13)
APPENDIX C: Bibliography
1779(8)
Acknowledgments 1787(4)
Photo Credits 1791(2)
Index 1793

An electronic version of this book is available through VitalSource.

This book is viewable on PC, Mac, iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, and most smartphones.

By purchasing, you will be able to view this book online, as well as download it, for the chosen number of days.

Digital License

You are licensing a digital product for a set duration. Durations are set forth in the product description, with "Lifetime" typically meaning five (5) years of online access and permanent download to a supported device. All licenses are non-transferable.

More details can be found here.

A downloadable version of this book is available through the eCampus Reader or compatible Adobe readers.

Applications are available on iOS, Android, PC, Mac, and Windows Mobile platforms.

Please view the compatibility matrix prior to purchase.