From the Book - Shorter second edition.
A short history of theater
Classical Chinese theater
Classical Japanese theater
Medieval European theater
Theater in early modern Europe, 1500-1700
English theater, 1576-1642
Spanish theater, 1580-1700
French theater, 1630-1700
English theater, 1660-1700
Eighteenth-century theater
Romanticism and melodrama, 1800-1880
Modern theater, 1880-1945
Postwar theater, 1945-1970
Reading drama, imagining theater.
The Plays. Oedipus the King (ca. 430-425 B.C.E.) / Sophocles --
Medea (431 B.C.E.) / Euripides --
Lysistrata (411 B.C.E.) / Aristophanes --
Martyrdom of the Holy Virgins Agape, Chionia, and Hirena (Dulcitius) (ca. 975) / Hrotsvit of Gandersheim --
Snow in Midsummer (13th century) / Guan Hanqing --
Atsumori (ca. 1400) / Zeami Motokiyo --
Second Shepherd's Play (ca. 1475) / Wakefield Master --
Everyman (ca. 1510) / Anonymous --
Tragical History of Doctor Faustus (ca. 1588) / Christopher Marlowe --
Hamlet (1600-1601) ; Twelfth Night, or, What you will (1600-1601) / William Shakespeare --
Tartuffe (1664) / Molière (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin) --
Rover (1677) / Aphra Behn --
Miss Julie (1888) / August Strindberg --
Doll House (1879) / Henrik Ibsen --
Importance of being Earnest (1895) / Oscar Wilde --
Cherry Orchard (1904) / Anton Chekhov --
Pygmalion (1913) / George Bernard Shaw --
Trifles (1916) / Susan Glaspell --
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921) / Luigi Pirandello --
Machinal (1928) / Sophie Treadwell --
Good Woman of Setzuan (1938-40) / Bertolt Brecht --
Long Day's Journey into Night (1941) / Eugene O'Neill --
Streetcar Named Desire (1947) / Tennessee Williams --
Death of a Salesman (1949) / Arthur Miller --
Song of death (1950) / Tawfiq Al-Hakim --
Waiting for Godot (1953) / Samuel Beckett --
Homecoming (1964) / Harold Pinter --
Death and the King's Horseman (1975) / Wole Soyinka --
Cloud nine (1979) / Caryl Churchill --
"Master Harold" and the boys (1982) / Athol Fugard --
Fences (1985) / August Wilson --
M. Butterfly (1988) / David Henry Hwang --
Angels in America, Part I: Millennium Approaches (1991) / Tony Kushner --
Almighty Voice and His Wife (1991) / Daniel David Moses --
America play (1994) / Suzan-Lori Parks.
v. 1. Antiquity through the eighteenth century
v. 2. The nineteenth century to the present.
