Kategoria BISAC: Drama >> Anthologies (multiple authors)

Here in one volume are the complete texts of eight of the world's greatest plays, masterful examples of the comic view of life in drama. This outstanding treasury of great reading includes the bawdy humor of Machiavelli's Mandragola; the poignant, searching wit of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya; the ironic social comment of Shaw's Arms and the Man; and five other influential works, including a new translation of Moliere's satire The...

Some of the world's greatest dramas unfold on these pages. In the powerful and famous plays of Sophocles, Aeschylus, and Euripedes, Oedipus makes his disastrous marriage, Prometheus struggles against Zeus to break his painful chains, and the Love Goddess, Aphrodite, takes her revenge on the Theban prince who slighted her. Shakespeare's King Lear suffers at the hands of his two evil daughters. The great Scandinavian dramatists...

• Includes full texts of Wycherley's The Country Wife and Congreve's The Way of the World.


• Demonstrates how Restoration comedy evolved between 1675 and 1700.


• Introduces general readers or students to the genre.


• An editorial introduction guides readers through the plays and the period.
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• Includes full texts of Wycherley's The Country Wife and Congreve's The Way of the World.


• Demonstrates how Restoration comedy evolved between 1675 and 1700.


• Introduces general readers or students to the genre.


• An editorial introduction guides readers through the plays and the period.
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This edition includes Anna Christie, The Emperor Jones, and The Hairy Ape three classic plays of uncontested power from the Nobel laureate and winner of two Pulitzer Prizes for drama.

In Anna Christie, a sailor reunites with his estranged daughter after years apart. As she begins to fall in love with a younger sailor, she realizes she must come clean to her father and her new love interest and reveal her troubled past.

In The Emperor Jones, African American fugitive, Brutus Jones, recounts his life through a series...

"Many good things are provided for our instruction and delight in this handsome volume. Chief among them perhaps, and most keenly wanted in a collection of this sort . . . are sanity and wit." The Romanic Review

"A most interesting literary history of the Don Juan theme with the plays or works themselves serving as illustrations. Professor Mandel's general introduction and his shorter introductions and commentaries throughout the book are solid, wise, and engaging." Robert E. Taylor, Renaissance News

"This anthology is exhaustive and informative, expertly...

In this classic anthology of French drama, Stephen S. Stanton has assembled the nineteenth century's finest "well-made plays": The Glass of Water and A Peculiar Position by Eugene Scribe; Camille by Alexander Dumas fils; Olympe's Marriage by Emile Augier; A Scrap of Paper by Victorien Sardou. In an incisive introduction, Stanton fully diagrams these works and their seminal influence on modern theater. Whether Dumas's risque study of courtesan love in Camille, or Augier's counterattack on the dangers of sentimentalizing such passions in Olympe's Marriage, these plays not only brilliantly...

Elmer Rice belongs high on the roster of influential play-wrights. He has brought vitality and world attention to the American theatre. His plays have passed the test of endurance.

"A veteran craftsman who knows his job...Rice is a showman who writes for the theatre rather than the library."--The New York Times