Introduction: Thinking About Drama
Lady Gregory, The Rising of the Moon
THE GREEKS
Greek Drama
Greek Stage
Greek Actors
Aeschylus, Agamemnon
Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
Sophocles, Antigone
Euripides, The Bacchae
Aristophanes, Lysistrata
The Compact Bedford Introduction To Drama
THE ROMANS
Roman Drama
The Roman Stage
Roman Actors Plautus, The Twin Menaechmi, Act. III
Terence, The Brothers, Act V
Seneca, Thyestes, Act V, Sc. ii.
The Bedford introduction to drama by Jacobus, Lee A. Publication date 2001 Topics. The Compact Bedford Introduction to Drama presents a well-balanced selection of plays, commentaries, and casebooks in a concise, affordable format.Its 29 chronologically arranged plays represent every major period from classic times to the present.
MEDIEVAL DRAMA
The Role of the Church
The Medieval Stage
The Medieval Actor
Hrosvitha, Dulcitius
Anonymous, Second Shepherd's Pageant
Anonymous, Everyman
- 'The Bedford Introduction to Drama is the best anthology available, offering wide-ranging coverage and significant context. I am able to adapt the book to several courses.' –Mark Cosdon, Allegheny College and President, American Theatre and Drama Society.
- Jacobus is professor emeritus of English at the University of Connecticut and the author/editor of popular English and drama textbooks, among them the full and compact versions of The Bedford Introduction to Drama, Sixth Edition (Bedford/St. Martin's, 2009); and The Longman Anthology of American Drama.
RENAISSANCE DRAMA
The Italian Theater
Commedia dell’Arte
The Elizabethan Theater
The Elizabethan Actor
Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus
William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
William Shakespeare, Hamlet
A CULTURAL CASEBOOK: WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE,
THE TEMPEST
Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Life Is a Dream
Bedford Introduction To Drama 7th Edition
LATE SEVENTEENTH- AND EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY DRAMA
The Restoration: Rebirth of Drama
Theater on the Continent: Neoclassicism
Theater in England
The Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Actor
Moliere, Tartuffe
Aphra Behn, The Rover; Or, The Banished Cavaliers
Chikamatsu, The Love Suicides at Sonezaki
William Congreve, The Way of the World
NINETEENTH-CENTURY DRAMA THROUGH THE TURN OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
The Nineteenth-Century Theater
The Nineteenth-Century Actor
Henrik Ibsen, A Doll House
August Strindberg, Miss Julie A Stylistic Casebook
on Melodrama
Anna Cora Mowatt, Fashion, Act V
George Aiken, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Act VI
Dion Boucicault, Notes on Acting
Bronson Howard, Shenandoah, Act III
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard
Bernard Shaw, Mrs. Warren's Profession
CASEBOOK ON THE “WOMAN QUESTION‛ IN THE LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY
John Stuart Mill, On the Subjection of Women
August Strindberg, The Woman Question‛ Women’s Rights
Johan Thorsten Sellin, Marriage and Divorce in Sweden
Richard Panofsky, A Nineteenth-Century Husband’s Letter to His Wife
Helen Watterson Moody, What It Means to Be a Wife
Flora Tristan, London Journal: Prostitutes in London... All the Streets Are Full of Them
A Letter to the Times (London) from a Prostitute
Barbara Mell Hobson, Successful Madams