Drama: principles & plays

FOR REFERENCE:

First Edition, 1967

Contents:

Preface

Part One. Principles
• Theater and Drama (Origins, Appeals, The Conventions of the Theater, Elements of Drama)
• Tragedy (Aristotle and Tragedy, The Creation of Tragedy, Significance of Content, Melodrama, Drama)
• Comedy (The Nature of Comedy, The Comic Attitude, Sources of Laughter, Plot, Comic Devices, Character, Thought, Comedy in Performance, Farce)

Part Two. Plays
• Antigone / Sophocles
• Hamlet / Shakespeare
• The Miser / Moliére
• The School for Scandal / Sheridan
• An Enemy of the People / Ibsen / Miller
• Miss Julie / Strindberg
• Major Barbara / Shaw
• Desire Under the Elms / O'Neil
• The Caucasian Chalk Circle / Brecht
• The Glass Menagerie / Williams
show more • The Leader / Ionesco
• Act Without Words, I / Beckett

Bibliography
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