About the Book

Types of Drama, 8/e offers a full range of plays from ancient Greece to the present. Like the earlier editions, this collection gives strong representation of such familiar authors as the Greek dramatists, Shakespeare, Ibsen, and O'Neill as well as to contemporary classic authors such as Miller, Williams and Churchill. New to the eighth edition are twenty-eight works including a commedia dell'arte scenario, a Nóh play, an opera by Gertrude Stein, a farce by Dario Fo, Elizabeth Robins's neglected Votes for Women, and Suzan-Lori-Parks's newest play, In the Blood.

FEATURES

• NEW! Two New Co-Authors!
  Lesley Ferris, Ohio State University, and Gerald Rabkin, Rutgers University, both of theatre departments have contributed their expertise to the eighth edition.
• NEW! More Plays and More New Plays!
  The eighth edition increases the number of plays to fifty-one, almost half of which are new. Most of these additional plays are from the last quarter of the twentieth century, but important earlier works (for example, Hamlet, Tartuffe, and The Cid) have also been added.
• NEW! More Contemporary Plays!
  The 20th century coverage has been expanded and revised to include more plays, including Caryl Churchill's Top Girls, Anna Deveare Smith's Fires in the Mirror, Tony Kushner's Angels in America, Part I: Millenium Approaches, and Suzan Lori Parks's In the Blood.
• NEW! Period Divisions.
  The anthology (Part II) is divided into nine historical periods that sketch the historical and cultural context of the plays.
• NEW! Full bibliography and list of video resources.
  For further reference, new lists of bibliographic and video resources are included at the end of the text.
• Revised Introduction.
  The introduction (Part I) has been revised by new co-editors Lesley Ferris and Gerald Rabkin. A new play, My Brazil, by Rachel Rosenthal is included.
• Revised Section on Writing about Drama.
  Expert advice to undergraduates about how to write analyses and reviews about drama has been extended. This discussion now includes now includes advice concerning writing about a film-version of a play and writing a documented research paper. The number of sample undergraduate essays has been increased from two to four. The material on research now includes coverage of electronic and Internet sources.
• "The Play on the Stage" and "The Play on the Page."
  Asks and encourages students to think critically about drama performed on the stage as well as on the page.
• Photo Essays.
  Give students an opportunity to see visual illustrations of a variety of dramatic subjects, including "Staging Shakespeare, Than and Now," and "Representations of Gender in the Theater."