12 Plays: A Portable Anthology » (1st Edition)

JANET E. GARDNER (Ph. D. University of Massachusetts, Amherst) is Associate Professor of English at University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth where she teaches courses in drama, British and world literature, and writing. She has published numerous articles, reviews, and chapters on contemporary drama, especially modern British drama and the work of Caryl Churchill. She has received several grants and awards for research into current teaching technologies, and is at work on a study of drama and theatre pedagogy.

A dozen plays that instructors want to teach and students like to read are gathered in this portable and economical volume.

Preface for Instructors
Sophocles, Oedipus Rex (Translated by Dudley Fitts & Robert Fitzgerald)
Aristophanes, Lysistrata (Translated by Dudley Fitts)
William Shakespeare, Hamlet
Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House (Translated by Rolf Fjelde)
Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard (Translated by Carol Rocamora)
Susan Glaspell, Trifles
Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
Samuel Beckett, Endgame
Caryl Churchill, Top Girls
Athol Fugard, "MASTER HAROLD" . . . and the Boys
August Wilson, The Piano Lesson

A Brief History of Western Theater Biographical and Textual Notes Selected List of Video Resources Glossary of Dramatic and Critical Terms