The great playwrights of the British, American and European theatre - and the plays most constantly performed are represented in this unique collection. Playwrights include: Ayckbourn, Bond, Beckett, Berkoff, Brecht, Coward, Fugard, Genet, Ionesco, Jarry, Miller, O'Neill, Orton, Osborne, Sartre, Shaw, Stoppard and Tennessee Williams plus many more.
A fuller appreciation of each speech is enhanced by the editors' introductions and commentaries that set the plays and individual speeches in their dramatic and performance contexts.
Edited by:
Michael Earley,
Philippa Keil
Imprint: Methuen Drama
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 198mm,
Width: 129mm,
Spine: 11mm
Weight: 320g
ISBN: 9780413672100
ISBN 10: 0413672107
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 01 August 2006
Audience:
General/trade
,
ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Chapter 1 Absent Friends (1974), Alan Ayckbourn; Chapter 2 All My Sons (1947), Arthur Miller; Chapter 3 American Buffalo (1975), David Mamet; Chapter 4 Antigone (1944), Jean Anouilh; Chapter 5 Becket (1959), Jean Anouilh; Chapter 6 Bingo (1973), Edward Bond; Chapter 7 The Blood Knot (1961), Athol Fugard; Chapter 8 Blues for Mister Charlie (1964), James Baldwin; Chapter 9 Caligula (1945), Albert Camus; Chapter 10 The Caretaker (1960), Harold Pinter; Chapter 11 The Caucasian Chalk Circle (1948), Bertolt Brecht; Chapter 12 Chips With Everything (1962), Arnold Wesker; Chapter 13 Cloud Nine (1979), Caryl Churchill; Chapter 14 Curse of the Starving Class (1976), Sam Shepard; Chapter 15 A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (1967), Peter Nichols; Chapter 16 East (1975), Steven Berkoff; Chapter 17 Entertaining Mr Sloane (1964), Joe Orton; Chapter 18 Faith Healer (1979), Brian Friel; Chapter 19 The Glass Menagerie (1945), Tennessee Williams; Chapter 20 The Homecoming (1965), Harold Pinter; Chapter 21 The House of Blue Leaves (1971), John Guare; Chapter 22 Huis Clos, In Camera/No Exit] (1944), Jean-Paul Sartre; Chapter 23 The Iceman Cometh (1940), Eugene O’Neill; Chapter 24 Krapp’s Last Tape (1958), Samuel Beckett; Chapter 25 La Turista (1967), Sam Shepard; Chapter 26 Long Day’s Journey into Night (1940), Eugene O’Neill; Chapter 27 Look Back in Anger (1956), John Osborne; Chapter 28 The Maids (1947), Jean Genet; Chapter 29 Murder in the Cathedral (1935), T. S. Eliot; Chapter 30 Napoli Milionaria (1945), Eduardo de Filippo; Chapter 31 The Night of the Iguana (1961), Tennessee Williams; Chapter 32 Otherwise Engaged (1975), Simon Gray; Chapter 33 Present Laughter (1942), Noël Coward; Chapter 34 The Price (1968), Arthur Miller; Chapter 35 Pygmalion (1912), Bernard Shaw; Chapter 36 The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (1941), Bertolt Brecht; Chapter 37 Rhinoceros (1960), Eugène Ionesco; Chapter 38 Rosencrantz and Guildenstem are Dead (1966), Tom Stoppard; Chapter 39 The Rules of the Game (1919), Luigi Pirandello; Chapter 40 The Ruling Class (1968), Peter Barnes; Chapter 41 Sexual Perversity in Chicago (1974), David Mamet; Chapter 42 Spring Awakening (1892), Frank Wedekind; Chapter 43 A Streetcar Named Desire (1947), Tennessee Williams; Chapter 44 Table Manners (1973), Alan Ayckbourn; Chapter 45 The Tooth of Crime (1972), Sam Shepard; Chapter 46 Ubu Cuckolded (c. 1892), Alfred Jarry; Chapter 47 Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962), Edward Albee;
