Types of Drama: Plays and Essays

by Sylvan Barnet, Morton Berman, William Burto

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This text presents a full range of drama from Ancient Greece to the present. It features an informal tone and an apparatus that provides students with reading strategies for the 27 plays anthologized in the text and discussions on how to criticize them.

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This text presents a full range of drama from Ancient Greece to the present. It features an informal tone and an apparatus that provides students with reading strategies for the 27 plays anthologized in the text and discussions on how to criticize them.

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Includes the following plays:

A Doll's House - Henrik Ibsen
Trifles - Susan Glaspell
Oedipus the King - Sophocles
Doctor Faustus - Christopher Marlowe
The Tragedy of King Lear - Shakespeare
Riders to the Sea - John Millington Synge
Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller
Dutchman - LeRoi Jones (Imamu Amiri Baraka)
Equus - Petter Shaffer
Lysistrata - Aristophanes
A Midsummer Night's Dream - Shakespeare
The Misanthrope - Moliere
The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
Arms and the Man - Bernard Shaw
The Cherry Orchard - Anton Chekhov
Six Characters in Search of an Author - Luigi Pirandello
Wild Strawberries - Ingmar Bergman
Happy Days - Samuel Beckett
The Dumb Waiter - Harold Pinter
'Master Harold'... and the Boys - Athol Fugard
Night, Mother - Marsha Norman

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