Lee A. Jacobus is professor emeritus of English at the University of Connecticut and the author/editor of popular English and drama textbooks, among them The Bedford Introduction to Drama and A World of Ideas. contact | Authors. Learn more about the history, theater design, staging, and acting style for each period represented in the text as you get a broad overview of drama through the ages. Author: Lee Jacobus Publisher: Bedford Saint Martin's Edition: 7th, Seventh, 7e Year: 2012 Format: Paperback 1120 pages ISBN: 978-1-4576-0633-5 (9781457606335) Bedford Introduction Drama Lee by Jacobus 8th Bedford Introduction to Drama. and the boys in Performance, August Wilson, Fences Fences in Performance         COMMENTARY:Joan Herrington, The Development of Fences       *August Wilson, The Ground on Which I Stand, Tony Kushner, Angels in America: Millennium Approaches       Angels in America in Performance     Paula Vogel, How I Learned to Drive              How I Learned to Drive in Performance, Suzan-Lori Parks, Topdog/Underdog       Topdog/Underdog in Performance     Sarah Ruhl, Eurydice          Eurydice in Performance, Lynn Nottage, Ruined   Ruined in Performance, COMMENTARY:       Randy Gener, In Defense of Ruined: Five Elements that Shape Lynn Nottage’s     Masterwork, *Quiara Alegría Hudes, Water by the Spoonful       Water by the Spoonful in Performance, *Ayad Akhtar, Disgraced            Disgraced in Performance, *Christopher Durang, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike       Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike in Performance, *John Patrick Shanley, Outside Mullingar       Outside Mullingar in Performance, *Stephen Karam, The Humans       The Humans in Performance     Writing About Drama  Writing Criticism about DramaApproaches to Criticism        Reader Response Criticism     Close Reading    From Prewriting to Final Draft: A Sample Student Essay on The Rising of the Moon      Writing a Review  What is the Purpose of a Review? Rent Textbooks Drama and Ritual         Drama: The Illusion of Reality        Seeing a Play Onstage         Theaters and Their Effect       Reading a Play           The Great Ages of Drama                  Egyptian Drama                    Greek Drama                         Roman Drama                       Medieval Drama                   Renaissance Drama                         Late-Seventeenth – and Eighteenth-Century Drama                         Drama from the Nineteenth Century through the Turn of the Twentieth Century                    Drama in the Early and Mid-Twentieth Century                         Contemporary Drama          Genres of Drama                   Tragedy                      Comedy                      Tragicomedy              Analyzing a Play through the Elements of Drama: Lady Gregory’s The Rising of the Moon                  Plot                   Characterization                    Setting                        Dialogue                     Music                  Movement                    Theme, GREEK DRAMA       The Development of Greek Drama           The Greeks and Their Gods           The Greek Stage        The Greek Actor        Genres of Greek Drama                    Tragedy                      Satyr Plays                   Comedy           The Great Age of Greek Drama       Greek Drama Timeline, Aeschylus, AgamemnonAgamemnon in Performance, COMMENTARY:       Lois Spatz, Oresteia: Trilogy Preserved, Sophocles, Oedipus RexOedipus Rex in Performance, COMMENTARIES:       Aristotle, Poetics: Comedy and Epic and Tragedy       Sigmund Freud, The Oedipus Complex, Sophocles, AntigoneAntigone in Performance, COMMENTARY:       Oliver Taplin, Emotion and Meaning in Greek Tragedy, *Euripides, Medea             Medea in Performance, Aristophanes, LysistrataLysistrata in Performance, ROMAN DRAMA              Indigenous Sources              The Roman Stage        The Roman Actor        Roman Drama Timeline        Roman Dramatists                  Plautus, Excerpt from The Twin Menaechmi (Act III)                     Terence, Excerpt from The Brothers (Act V)                         Seneca, Excerpt from Thyestes (Act V, Scene ii), MEDIEVAL DRAMA         The Role of the Church        Miracle Plays             Mystery Plays            Morality Plays           Japanese Drama         The Medieval Stage             The Medieval Actor             Medieval Drama Timeline, Hrosvitha, Dulcitius    Dulcitius in Performance, COMMENTARY:       Sue-Ellen Case, Re-viewing Hrotsvit, The Wakefield Master, The Second Shepherds' Pageant       The Second Shepherds' Pageant in Performance, Anonymous, EverymanEveryman in Performance, RENAISSANCE DRAMA           The Italian Theater               Commedia dell’Arte            Elizabethan Drama                          The Elizabethan Theater                   The Elizabethan Actor                    The Elizabethan Audience                        Female Characters on the English Stage                       The Masque       Spanish Drama          Renaissance Drama Timeline, Christopher Marlowe, Doctor FaustusDoctor Faustus in Performance, William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream  A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Performance, COMMENTARY:       Linda Bamber, On a Midsummer Night’s Dream, William Shakespeare, HamletHamlet in Performance, COMMENTARY:       A.C. Bradley, Hamlet’s Melancholy, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Life’s a Dream     Life’s a Dream in Performance, COMMENTARY:       Ed Morales, Review of Jose Rivera’s Production of Sueño, LATE-SEVENTEENTH- AND EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY DRAMA         Theater on the Continent: Neoclassicm                         French Tragedy                     French Comedy: Molière       Theater in England: The Restoration        Eighteenth-Century Drama            The Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Actor         Drama in Japan          Late-Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Drama Timeline Molière, TartuffeTartuffe in Performance         Aphra Behn, The Rover, or The Banished CavaliersThe Rover, or The Banished Cavaliers in Performance, COMMENTARY:       Elaine Hobby, Courtship and Marriage in The Rover, Chikamatsu Monzaemon, The Love Suicides at Sonezaki       The Love Suicides at Sonezaki   in Performance                  COMMENTARY:       Donald H. Shively, The Development of Theater Buildings, *Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Rivals The Rivals in Performance, NINETEENTH CENTURY THROUGH THE TURN OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY          The Nineteenth-Century Theater              The Nineteenth-Century Actor         The Astor Place Riot            Romantic Drama        Melodrama        The Well-Made Play            The Rise of Realism            Nineteenth-Century Drama Timeline, Henrik Ibsen, A Doll House   A Doll House in Performance, COMMENTARY:       Henrik Ibsen, Notes for the Modern Tragedy, August Strindberg, Miss JulieMiss Julie in Performance, COMMENTARY:       August Strindberg, From the Preface to Miss Julie, Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being EarnestThe Importance of Being Earnest in Performance, Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard      The Cherry Orchard in Performance, COMMENTARY:       Peter Brook, On Chekhov, *Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion  Pygmalion in Performance, COMMENTARIES:       *Bernard Shaw, from the Preface to Pygmalion           *Michael Holroyd, The History of Pygmalion, A Cultural Casebook: The “Woman Question” in the Late Nineteenth Century    John Stuart Mill, On the Subjection of Women    August Strindberg, The Woman Question: Women’s Rights       Johan Thorsten Sellin, Marriage and Divorce in Sweden  Richard Panofsky, A Nineteenth-Century Husband’s Letter to His Wife   Helen Watterson Moody, What It Means to Be a Wife    *Shani D’Cruze, Women and the Family    *Helene E. Roberts, The Fallen Woman             DRAMA IN THE EARLY AND MID-TWENTIETH CENTURY       The Heritage of Realism        Realism and Myth       Myth and Culture        Poetic Realism           Social Realism           Realism and Expressionism           Antirealism        Epic Theater       Absurdist Drama        The Early- and Mid-Twentieth-Century Stage             The Early- and Mid-Twentieth-Century Actor             Early – and Mid-Twentieth-Century Drama Timeline, John Millington Synge, Riders to the Sea  Riders to the Sea in Performance, COMMENTARY:       John Millington Synge, From The Aran Islands, Susan Glaspell, Trifles  Trifles in Performance, COMMENTARY:       Christine Dymkowski, On the Edge: The Plays of Susan Glaspell, Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author        Six Characters in Search of an Author in Performance, *Federico Garcia Lorca, Blood Wedding Blood Wedding in Performance, Eugene O'Neill, Desire under the Elms    Desire under the Elms in Performance, *Bertolt Brecht, The Good Woman of SetzuanThe Good Woman of Setzuan in Performance, COMMENTARY:       Bertolt Brecht, The Alienation Effect, Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof      Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in Performance       COMMENTARY:       Brenda Murphy, Tennessee Williams and Elia Kazan Collaborate on Cat, Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman Death of a Salesman in Performance, COMMENTARY:       Arthur Miller, Tragedy and the Common Man, A Production Casebook: Death of a Salesman Jo Mielziner, Designing a Play: Death of a SalesmanElia Kazan, Directing Death of a SalesmanArthur Miller, From “The American Theater”June Schlueter and James K. Flanagan, Memorable Willy, *Samuel Beckett, Waiting for GodotWaiting for Godot in Performance, COMMENTARY:       Martin Esslin, The Theatre of the Absurd, Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun A Raisin in the Sun in Performance, COMMENTARY:       *Lindsay Champion, The Evolution of A Raisin in the Sun, Wole Soyinka, The Strong Breed   The Strong Breed in Performance, CONTEMPORARY DRAMA               Experimentation                   Theater of Cruelty                   Environmental Theater                   “Poor Theater”                      Theater of Images                   Gay and Lesbian Theater and Other New Ensembles                    Contemporary Women Playwrights         Experimentation with the Tradition                    Drama in the United States                       Drama in Europe: England, Ireland, and France                         Drama in Asia and Africa       The Contemporary Theater            The Contemporary Actor               Contemporary Drama Timeline Harold Pinter, The Homecoming       The Homecoming in Performance      Maria Irene Fornes, Fefu and Her Friends              Fefu and Her Friends in Performance, *Sam Shepard, True West           True West in Performance        Caryl Churchill, Cloud Nine       Cloud Nine in Performance, *David Mamet, American Buffalo       American Buffalo in Performance      Athol Fugard, “MASTER HAROLD” . 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