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| Genre/Form: | Collections Drama Théâtre |
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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Gassner, John, 1903-1967. Treasury of the theatre. New York, Simon and Schuster [1951] (OCoLC)573415752 Online version: Gassner, John, 1903-1967. Treasury of the theatre. New York, Simon and Schuster [1951] (OCoLC)612779814 |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
John Gassner; Burns Mantle |
| OCLC Number: | 1300639 |
| Notes: | "Revised and expanded from the original [1935 ed.] ... edited by Burns Mantle and John Gassner." |
| Description: | 3 volumes ; 26 cm |
| Contents: | V. 1: World drama from Aeschylus to Turgenev -- The classic age -- Agamemnon / Aeschylus -- Oedipus the king / Sophocles -- The Trojan women / Euripides -- The frogs / Aristophanes -- The menaechmi / Plautus -- The brothers / Terence -- The Oriental theatre -- Shakuntala / Kalidasa -- Sotoba Komachi / Kwanami Kiyotsugu -- The Medieval drama -- Abraham and Isaac / Unknown -- The second shepherds' play / Unknown -- Everyman / Unknown -- The Renaissasnce -- The tragical history of Doctor Faustus / Christopher Marlowe -- Hamlet / William Shakespeare -- Volpone / Ben Jonson -- The duchess of Malfi / John Webster -- Fuente Ovejuna / Lope de Vega -- The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- The misanthrope / Molière -- Phaedra / Jean Racine -- The way of the world / William Congreve -- The school for scandal / Richard B. Sheridan -- The Romantic and early Realistic drama -- Faust, Part one / J.W. von Goethe -- No trifling with love / Alfred de Musset -- Danton's death / Georg Büchner -- The inspector / Nikolai Gogol -- Maria Magdalena / Friedrich Hebbel -- A month in the country / Ivan Turgenev -- V. 2: Modern European drama from Henrik Ibsen to Jean-Paul Sartre -- Realism and Naturalism -- Ghosts / Henrik Ibsen -- Hedda Gabler / Henrik Ibsen -- The father / August Strindberg -- The vultures / Henry Becque -- The weavers / Gerhart Hauptmann -- The tenor / Frank Wedekind -- The power of darkness / Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy -- The cherry orchard / Anton Chekhov -- The lower depths / Maxim Gorki -- Departures from realism -- The 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 -- The flies / Jean-Paul Sartre -- V. 3: Modern British and American drama from Oscar Wilde to Arthur Miller -- Modern drama in England and Ireland -- The importance of being Earnest / Oscar Wilde -- Candida / George B. 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. Sherriff -- Blithe Spirit / Noel Coward -- Modern American Drama -- Anna Christie / Eugene O'Neill -- The hairy ape / Eugene O'Neill -- What price glory? / Laurence Stallings and Maxwell Anderson -- Elizabeth the queen / Maxwell Anderson -- The green pastures / Marc 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. |
| Responsibility: | edited by John Gassner. |
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