Overview
Main description
This anthology of 18 plays offers a convenient and affordable alternative to ordering individual play scripts, with the additional benefit of a general introduction and headnotes.
Table of contents
How to Read a PlayWhere and When the Play Takes Place: The Setting and CircumstancesWho the Participants Are: The CharactersWhat Kind of Play It Is: Categories and GenresHow the Play Unfolds: Action and ThemeThe Play BeginsThe Play ProgressesThe ThemeThe ConclusionThe Anthology of PlaysSophocles, Antigone, trans: Peter D. ArnottLysistrata, trans: Douglass ParkerPlautus, The Menaechmus Brothers, trans. and ed: E.F.Watling Abraham and Isaac adapted by the editorsKwanami Kiyotsugu, Sotoba Komachi, trans. Arthur WaleyWilliam Shakespeare, Hamlet, ed. and with notes by Tucker Brooke and Jack Randall CrawfordMoliere, Tartuffe, trans. Richard Wilbur Susanna Centlivre, The Busy BodyHenrik Ibsen, A Doll's House, trans. Eva Le GallienneAnton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard, trans. Constance GarnettAugust Strindberg, A Dream Play, trans. Walter JohnsonBertolt Brecht, The Good Woman of Setzuan trans. Eric Bentley and Maja ApelmanTennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin RoofSamuel Beckett, Krapp's Last TapeCharles Ludlam, The Mystery of Irma VepAugust Wilson, Joe Turner's Come and GoneCaryl Chuchill, Far Away John Leguizamo, Excerpts from Freak
