Our dramatic heritage / edited by Philip G. Hill.

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Other Authors: Hill, Philip G. (Philip George), 1934-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Rutherford [N.J.] : London ; Cranbury, NJ : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Associated University Presses, ℗♭1983-℗♭1992.
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Table of Contents:
  • v. 1. Classical drama and the early Renaissance
  • The oresteia (Aeschylus)
  • Oedipus Rex (Sopjocles)
  • Medea (Euripides)
  • Lysistrata (Arostophanes)
  • The Dyskolos (Menander)
  • Miles Gloriosus (Titus Maccus Plautus)
  • The brothers ( Publius Terentius Afer)
  • The trojan women (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
  • Abraham (Hrotsvitha)
  • The second shepard's play, everyman, and Pierre Pathelin (authors unknown)
  • The doubles according to Plautus ( a commedia dell'arte scenario)
  • The mandrake (Niccolo Machiavelli)
  • v. 2. The Golden Age The Spanish tradgedy (Thomas Kyd)
  • Edward the Second (Christopher Marlowe)
  • Twelfth night (William Shakespeare
  • King Lear ( William Shakespeare)
  • Volpone (Ben Jonson)
  • The knight of the burning pestle (Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher)
  • The Duchess of Malfi (John Webster)
  • The dog in the manger ( Lope de Vega)
  • The trickster of Seville (Tirso de Molina)
  • Life is a dream (Pedro Calderon de la Barca)
  • The cid (Pierre Corneille)
  • Tartuffe (Moliere)
  • Scapin (Moliere)
  • Phaedra (Jean Racine)
  • v. 3. The eighteenth century
  • The way of the world (William Congreve)
  • Jean de France (Ludvig Holberg)
  • The beggar's opera (John Gay)
  • The mistress of the inn (Carlo Goldoni)
  • She stoops to conquer (Oliver Goldsmith)
  • The school for scandal (Richard B. Sheridan)
  • Figaro's marriage (Beaumarchais)
  • v. 4. Romanticism and realism
  • Wilhelm Tell ( Friedrich von Schiller)
  • Faust, Part I (Johann van Goethe)
  • Woyzeck (Georg Buchner)
  • The glass of water (Eugene Scribe)
  • Therese Raquin (Emile Zola)
  • Peer Gynt (Henrik Ibsen)
  • Hedda Gabler (Henrik Ibsen)
  • Cyrano de Bergerac (Edmond Rostand)
  • The lower depths (Maxim Gorky)
  • the cherry orchard ( Anton Chekhov)
  • v. 5. Reactions to realism
  • Arms and the man (Bernard Shaw)
  • Saint Joan (Bernard Shaw)
  • The importance of being earnest (Oscar Wilde)
  • Riders to the sea (John Millngton Synge)
  • From morn to midnight (August Strindberg)
  • Juno and the paycock( Sean O'Casey)
  • The threepenny opera (Bertolt Brecht)
  • Galileo (Bertolot Brecht)
  • Purgatory ( WIlliam Bulter Yeats)
  • v. 6. Expressing the inexpressible
  • The blind (Maurice Maeterlinck)
  • King Ubu (Alfred Jarry)
  • The bug in her ear (Georges Feydeau)
  • Six characters in search of an Author ( Luigi Pirandello)
  • Orphee (Jean Cocteau)
  • Red magic ( Michel de Ghelderode)
  • Blood wedding ( Federico Garcia Lorca)
  • Ondine ( Jean Giraudoux)
  • Thieves' Carnival (Jean Anouilh)