Details

Edition

Revised edition.

Description

3 volumes ; 26 cm

Note

"Revised and expanded from the original [1935 ed.] ... edited by Burns Mantle and John Gassner."

Bibliography

Includes bibliographies.

Contents

v. 1. World drama from Aeschylus to Turgenev. Classic age. Agamemnon / Aeschylus ; Oedipus the King / Sophocles ; Trojan women / Euripides ; Frogs / Aristophanes ; Menaechmi / Plautus ; Brothers / Terence -- Oriental theatre. Shakuntala / Kalidasa ; Sotoba Komachi / Kwanami Kiyotsugu -- Medieval drama. Abraham and Isaac / author unknown ; Second shepherd's play / author unknown ; Everyman / author unknown -- Renaissance. Tragical history of Doctor Faustus / Christopher Marlowe ; Hamlet / William Shakespeare ; Volpone / Ben Johnson ; Duchess of Malfi / John Webster ; Fuente Ovejuna / Lope de Vega -- Seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Misanthrope / Molière ; Phaedra / Jean Racine ; Way of the world / William Congreve ; School for scandal / Richard Brinsley Sheridan -- Romantic and early Realistic drama. Faust, part one / J.W. von Goethe ; No trifling with love / Alfred de Musset ; Danton's death / Georg Büchner ; Inspector / Nikolai Gogol ; Maria Magdalena / Friedrich Hebbel ; Month in the country / Ivan Turgenev.

v. 2. Modern European drama from Henrik Ibsen to Eugene Ionesco. Realism and naturalism. Ghosts / Henrik Ibsen ; Hedda Gabler / Henrik Ibsen ; Father / August Strindberg ; Vultures / Henry Becque ; Weavers / Gerhart Hauptmann ; Tenor / Frank Wedekind ; Power of darkness / Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy ; Cherry orchard / Anton Chekhov ; Lower depths / Maxim Gorki -- Departures from realism. Intruder / Maurice Maeterlinck ; Cyrano de Bergerac / Edmond Rostand ; There are crimes and crimes / August Strindberg ; Liliom / Ferenc Molnar ; Six characters in search of an author / Luigi Pirandello ; R.U.R. / Karel Capek ; Blood wedding / Federico García Lorca ; From The private life of the master race / Bertolt Brecht ; Flies / Jean-Paul Sartre -- Modern drama in England and Ireland. Importance of being earnest / Oscar Wilde ; Candida / George Bernard Shaw ; Admirable Crichton / James M. Barrie ; Escape / John Galsworthy ; Workhouse ward / Lady Gregory ; Riders to the sea / John Millington Synge ; Plough and the stars / Sean O'Casey ; Circle / W. Somerset Maugham ; Journey's end / R.C. Sherriff ; Blithe spirit / Noel Coward -- Modern American drama. Anna Christie / Eugene O'Neill ; Hairy ape / Eugene O'Neill ; What price glory? / Laurence Stallings and Maxwell Anderson ; Elizabeth the queen / Maxwell Anderson ; Green pastures / Marc Connelly ; Our town / Thornton Wilder ; Golden boy / Clifford Odets ; Little foxes / Lillian Hellman ; My heart's in the highlands / William Saroyan ; Glass menagerie / Tennessee Williams ; Death of a salesman / Arthur Miller.

v.3. Modern British and American drama from Oscar Wilde to Arthur Miller: The Importance of being Earnest -- Oscar Wilde / Candida -- George Bernard Shaw / The admirable Crichton -- James M. Barrie / Escape -- John Galsworthy / The Workhouse Ward -- Lady Gregory / Riders to the sea -- John Millington Synge / The plough and the stars -- Sean O'Casey / The circle -- W. Somerset Maugham / Journey's end -- R.C. Sheriff / Blithe Spirit -- Noel Coward / Anna Christie -- Eugene O'Neill / The hairy ape -- Eugene O'Neill / What price glory? -- Laurence Stallings & Maxwell Anderson / Elizabeth the queen -- Maxwell Anderson / The green pastures -- Mark Connelly / Our Town -- Thornton Wilder / Golden Boy -- Clifford Odets / The little foxes -- Lillian Hellman / My heart's in the highlands -- William Saroyan / The glass menagerie -- Tennessee Williams / Death of a Salesman -- Arthur Miller / A dream play -- August Strindberg / The tidings brought to Mary -- Paul Claudel / The madwoman of Chaillot -- Jean Giraudoux / The lark -- Jean Anouilh / The maids -- Jean Genet / The chairs -- Eugene Ionesco.

Subject

Drama -- Collections.

Added Author

Mantle, Burns, 1873-1948, Treasury of the theatre.