This anthology of plays is ideal for use in an introductory course at the high school or university level. As representative examples from major eras in theatre history, most of the selected plays have served as the basis for a film version of the text. Students can explore the differences and similarities between the play as it was originally written and its adaptation from the page to the stage or to the screen.
An appendix contains removable forms for quizzes, analyses of the plays and films, study guides, and facsimiles of set/scene designs for each play included. Wide margins throughout the book allow space for students to record their own notes as they read the plays.
Contents:
|
A
Word to Students
This
Book as an Approach to Learning |
Medea
Euripides. An Adaptation by Ronald G. Perrier |
Everyman
Author
Unknown. A Modern Version by Ronald G. Perrier |
Hamlet
William
Shakespeare. A Cutting by Blanche Davis Frink |
The
Miser
Moliere.
An Adaptation by Charles Nolte |
The
Importance of Being Earnest
Oscar
Wilde |
The
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Based
on the Novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. An Adaptation
by Charles Nolte |
Of
Mice and Men
John
Steinbeck |
All
My Sons
Arthur
Miller |
Suddenly
Last Summer
Tennessee
Williams |
The
Heidi Chronicles
Wendy
Wasserstein |
One-Act
Plays
Riders
to the Sea – John Millington Synge
The Marriage Proposal – Anton Chekhov.
 An
Adaptation by Ronald G. Perrier
I'm Herbert – Robert W. Anderson |
