Based on the best-selling Harcourt Anthology of Drama, the Brief Edition provides many of the important elements of that anthology but in a more streamlined form.

The Harcourt Anthology of Drama, Brief Edition

Literature & Fiction

Worthen, W. B.

Dramas & Plays

Cengage Learning'

This best-selling drama anthology is an unusually comprehensive collection of classic theatre and contemporary drama drawn from around the world.

Harcourt Brace Anthology of Drama ( Instructor's Manual to Accompany )

Harcourt College Publishers

The Harcourt Brace Anthology of Drama

This best-selling drama anthology is an unusually comprehensive collection of classic theatre and contemporary drama drawn from around the world.

Humor & Entertainment

The boldest and most distinguished introduction to drama available today, W.B. Worthen's pace-setting text continues to provide exciting plays usefully situated within their historical and cultural contexts. Based on the best-selling WADSWORTH ANTHOLOGY OF DRAMA, the Brief Edition provides many of the important elements of that anthology but in a more streamlined form.

The Wadsworth Anthology of Drama, Revised Edition

Modern Drama and the Rhetoric of Theater

The history of drama is typically viewed as a series of inert "styles." Tracing British and American stage drama from the 1880s onward, W. B. Worthen instead sees drama as the interplay of text, stage production, and audience. How are audiences manipulated? What makes drama meaningful? Worthen identifies three rhetorical strategies that distinguish an O'Neill play from a Yeats, or these two from a Brecht. Where realistic theater relies on the "natural" qualities of the stage scene, poetic theater uses the poet's word, the text, to control performance. Modern political theater, by contrast, openly places the audience at the center of its rhetorical designs, and the drama of the postwar period is shown to develop a range of post-Brechtian practices that make the audience the subject of the play. Worthen's book deserves the attention of any literary critic or serious theatergoer interested in the relationship between modern drama and the spectator.

University of California Press

Shakespeare and the Force of Modern Performance asks a central theoretical question in the study of drama: What is the relationship between the dramatic text and the meanings of performance? W.B. Worthen argues that the text cannot govern the force of its performance. Instead, the text becomes significant only as embodied in the changing conventions of its performance. Worthen explores this understanding of dramatic performativity by interrogating several contemporary sites of Shakespeare production. The book includes detailed discussions of recent films and stage productions, and sets Shakespeare performance alongside other works of contemporary drama and theatre.

Shakespeare and the Force of Modern Performance

Cambridge University Press

The question of the materiality of the book has surprising consequences when applied to dramatic writing. W.B. Worthen asks how the print form of drama bears on how we understand its dual identity--as play texts and in performance. Beginning with the most salient modern critique of printed drama, arising in the field of Shakespeare editing, Worthen then looks at the ways such playwrights and performance artists as Bernard Shaw, Gertrude Stein, Harold Pinter, Samuel Beckett, Anna Deavere Smith, and Sarah Kane stage the poetics of modern drama in the poetics of the page.

Print and the Poetics of Modern Drama

Known through three editions as the boldest and most distinguished introduction to drama, William Worthen's pace-setting text continues to provide exciting plays usefully situated within their historical and cultural contexts.

The Wadsworth Anthology of Drama

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The Harcourt Anthology of Drama, Brief Edition

Harcourt Brace Anthology of Drama ( Instructor's Manual to Accompany )

The Harcourt Brace Anthology of Drama

The Wadsworth Anthology of Drama, Revised Edition

Modern Drama and the Rhetoric of Theater

Shakespeare and the Force of Modern Performance

Print and the Poetics of Modern Drama

Shakespeare and the Force of Modern Performance

Print and the Poetics of Modern Drama

The Wadsworth Anthology of Drama