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Seagull Reader: Plays » (2nd Edition)
Authors: Joseph Kelly
ISBN-13: 9780393933246, ISBN-10: 0393933245
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Date Published: December 2008
Edition: 2nd Edition
Author Biography: Joseph Kelly
Joseph Kelly (Ph.D., University of Texas) is Associate Professor of English at the College of Charleston. He is the author of Our Joyce: From Outcast to Icon.
Book Synopsis
Compact, portable, and inexpensive, The Seagull Reader: Plays, Second Edition, offers 8 classic (and contemporary classic) plays, 2 of them—Death of a Salesman and A Raisin in the Sun—new to this edition.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | vii | |
| Note on Dates | x | |
| Introduction | xi | |
| What Is Drama? | xi | |
| Dramatic Conventions Then and Now | xii | |
| Cultural Context | xiii | |
| Page versus Stage | xiv | |
| The Parts of a Play | xvi | |
| Plot | xvi | |
| Character | xix | |
| Spectacle | xxi | |
| Symbolism | xxiii | |
| Tragedy | xxv | |
| Comedy | xxviii | |
| Major Moments in the History of Theater | xxix | |
| Greek Theater | xxix | |
| Elizabethan Theater | xxxii | |
| Nineteenth-Century Middle-Class Theater | xxxv | |
| The Provincetown Players | xxxvi | |
| Contemporary American Theater | xxxviii | |
| Regional Theaters | xl | |
| Conclusion | xl | |
| Plays | ||
| Sophocles, Oedipus the King | 3 | |
| William Shakespeare, Hamlet | 54 | |
| Henrik Ibsen, A Doll House | 182 | |
| Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest | 254 | |
| Susan Glaspell, Trifles | 317 | |
| Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie | 332 | |
| August Wilson, Fences | 400 | |
| David Henry Hwang, M. Butterfly | 469 | |
| Biographical Sketches | 535 | |
| Glossary | 541 | |
| Permissions Acknowledgments | 547 |
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