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World drama

An introduction to drama that provides a selection of plays from the Greeks to modern drama. For each of the 18 plays featured, an introduction places the play in a historical and critical context. Also included are three essays, "Drama and its Structure", "Form in Drama" and "Drama in Classical Greece".
Print Book, English, ©1984
Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, New York, ©1984
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viii, 644 pages ; 24 cm
9780030576683, 0030576687
8827854
Online version:
Drama and Its Structure. Form in Drama. Drama in Classical Greece: Antigone, Sophocles. Iphigeneia at Aulis, Euripides. Lysistrata, Aristophanes. Pseudolus, Plautus. Everyman, Anonimous. Matsukaze, Kanze Kiyotsugu Kan'ami. King Lear, William Shakespeare. The School for Wives, Moliere. The Recruiting Officer, George Farquhar. Uncle Tom's Cabin, Or Life Among the Lowly, George L. Aiken, Adapted from the Novel By Harriety Beecher Stowe. A Doll's House, Henrik Ibsen. Major Barbara, George Bernard Shaw. The Little Foxes, Lillian Helman. Life of Galileo, Bertolt Brecht. Krapp's Last Tape, Samuel Beckett. The Strong Breed, Wole Soyinka. Slave Ship, Imamu Amiri Baraka. Buried Child, Sam Shepard. Appendix.