The Compact Bedford Introduction to
Drama, 7th Edition
                                
Bedford/St. Martins
 

Introduction: Thinking About Drama
Lady Gregory, The Rising of the Moon 

                                
THE GREEKS 
Greek Drama 
Greek Stage 
Greek Actors
Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
Aristophanes, Lysistrata
                                
THE ROMANS
Roman Drama
The Roman Stage
Roman Actors
MEDIEVAL DRAMA
The Role of the Church
The Medieval Stage
The Medieval Actor
Anonymous, Everyman 
                                
RENAISSANCE DRAMA 
The Italian Theater
Commedia dell'Arte
The Elizabethan Theater
The Elizabethan Actor
William Shakespeare, Hamlet
William Shakespeare, The Tempest 
A Critical Casebook on The Tempest
                                
LATE SEVENTEENTH- AND
EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY DRAMA
The Restoration: Rebirth of Drama
Theater on the Continent: Neoclassicism
Theater in England
The Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Actor
Moliere, Tartuffe
Chikamatsu, The Love Suicides at Sonezaki

NINETEENTH-CENTURY DRAMA
THROUGH THE TURN OF THE
TWENTIETH CENTURY
The Nineteenth-Century Theater
The Nineteenth-Century Actor
Henrik Ibsen, A Doll House
August Strindberg, Miss Julie
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard
                                
DRAMA IN THE EARLY AND
MID-TWENTIETH CENTURY 
Realism and Myth
Myth and Culture
The Early and Mid-Twentieth-Century Stage
The Early and Mid-Twentieth-Century Actor
Susan Glaspell, Trifles 
Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author
Eugene O'Neill, Desire Under the Elms
Bertolt Brecht, Mother Courage and Her Children 
Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 
Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
Casebook on the Production of Death of a Salesman
Jo Mielzener, Designing a Play: Death of a Salesman
Elia Kazan, Directing Death of a Salesman 
Brenda Murphy, Racial Consciousness in Casting Death of a Salesman
Arthur Miller, From The American Theater
June Schluetter and James K. Flanagan, Memorable Willy
Catherine Diamond, Death of a Salesman in Taipei
Samuel Beckett, Endgame 
Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun
                                
CONTEMPORARY DRAMA 
Experimentation
Theater of Cruelty
Environmental Theater
"Poor Theater'
Theater of Images
Gay and Lesbian Theater and Other New Ensembles
Experiments with Theater Space
The Contemporary Theater
The Contemporary Actor
Caryl Churchill, Cloud Nine 
Athol Fugard, "MASTER HAROLD'' . . . and the Boys
August Wilson, Fences
Tony Kushner, Angels in America: Millenium Approaches 
Suzan-Lori Parks, Topdog/Underdog
Sara Ruhl, Eurydice 
John Patrick Shanley, Doubt: A Parable 
Lynn Nottage, Ruined 

Appendices
Writing About Drama
Glossary of Dramatic Terms