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Product Description: INTRODUCTORY THE CHOICE OF A THEME DRAMATIC AND UNDRAMATIC THE ROUTINE OF COMPOSITION DRAMATIS PERSONAE THE POINT OF ATTACK: SHAKESPEARE AND IBSEN EXPOSITION: ITS END AND ITS MEANS THE FIRST ACT CURIOSITY" AND "INTEREST" FORESHADOWING, NOT FORESTALLING TENSION AND ITS SUSPENSION PREPARATION: THE FINGER-POST THE OBLIGATORY SCENE THE PERIPETY PROBABILITY, CHANCE AND COINCIDENCE LOGIC KEEPING A SECRET CLIMAX AND ANTICLIMAX CONVERSION BLIND-ALLEY THEMES--AND OTHERS THE FULL CLOS...read more
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9781492991809 | Createspace Independent Pub, October 15, 2013, cover price $8.99 | About this edition: INTRODUCTORY THE CHOICE OF A THEME DRAMATIC AND UNDRAMATIC THE ROUTINE OF COMPOSITION DRAMATIS PERSONAE THE POINT OF ATTACK: SHAKESPEARE AND IBSEN EXPOSITION: ITS END AND ITS MEANS THE FIRST ACT CURIOSITY" AND "INTEREST" FORESHADOWING, NOT FORESTALLING TENSION AND ITS SUSPENSION PREPARATION: THE FINGER-POST THE OBLIGATORY SCENE THE PERIPETY PROBABILITY, CHANCE AND COINCIDENCE LOGIC KEEPING A SECRET CLIMAX AND ANTICLIMAX CONVERSION BLIND-ALLEY THEMES--AND OTHERS THE FULL CLOSE
Product Description: This volume includes: "The Country Wife," by William Wycherley; "The Way of the World," by William Congreve; "The Beggar's Opera," by John Gay; "The Rirals," by Richard Brinsley Sheridan; plus songs, verses, prologues, and epilogues...read more
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9781434485410 | Wildside Pr, September 30, 2007, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: This volume includes: "The Country Wife," by William Wycherley; "The Way of the World," by William Congreve; "The Beggar's Opera," by John Gay; "The Rirals," by Richard Brinsley Sheridan; plus songs, verses, prologues, and epilogues.
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9781434485403 | Wildside Pr, September 30, 2007, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: This volume includes: "The Country Wife," by William Wycherley; "The Way of the World," by William Congreve; "The Beggar's Opera," by John Gay; "The Rirals," by Richard Brinsley Sheridan; plus songs, verses, prologues, and epilogues.
Product Description: The first and best single-volume reference of its kind, this comprehensive work traces world drama from its earliest ritual forms to modern times. Focusing on the literary content of the plays, it features articles by nearly 100 distinguished contributors, including Eric Bentley, Alfred Harbage, Jacques Guichamaud, Cedric Whitman, and Wallace Fowlie...read more
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9780690674835 | Ty Crowell Co, June 1, 1969, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Comprehensive reference work which covers the drama of all five continents from its origins to the present, including plays, playwrights, national dramas and the major genres
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9780486420646 | Unabridged edition (Dover Pubns, May 9, 2002), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: The first and best single-volume reference of its kind, this comprehensive work traces world drama from its earliest ritual forms to modern times.
Product Description: During early colonial times, traveling actors and troupes from London took the first tentative steps in establishing America's theatrical tradition. The nation's history of theater evolved slowly, but the nineteenth-century development of an authentic American theatrical voice gave rise to a growing number of noteworthy indigenous playwrights by the early 1900s...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780486410982 | Unabridged edition (Dover Pubns, June 13, 2000), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: During early colonial times, traveling actors and troupes from London took the first tentative steps in establishing America's theatrical tradition.
Product Description: (Applause Books). Theatre and Drama in the Making introduces readers not only to important primary sources, but to the uses made of them by distinguished theorists, critics, and historians. Unlike other texts, it discusses theatre as a whole, embracing both the art of dramatic writing and the art of performance...read more
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9781557830739 | Rev enl su edition (Applause Theatre & Cinema Books, September 1, 1992), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: (Applause Books).
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9781557830289 | Rev upd su edition (Applause Theatre & Cinema Books, January 1, 1990), cover price $19.95
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9780517509487 | 2 edition (Crown Pub, August 1, 1989), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: An anthology of plays preceded by an appraisal of American drama from 1939-1946
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9780936839844 | Applause Theatre & Cinema Books, December 1, 1987, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: Presents examples of folk drama, and morality plays, and the early tragedies and comedies following classical models
The plays selected are prefaced by a critical essay on Broadway's leanest decade
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9780517509647 | Crown Pub, November 1, 1986, cover price $22.50 | About this edition: The plays selected are prefaced by a critical essay on Broadway's leanest decade
An anthology of plays written between 1916 and 1929 prefaced with biographical information and production data
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9780517503904 | Crown Pub, June 1, 1985, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: An anthology of plays written between 1916 and 1929 prefaced with biographical information and production data
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9780671201371 | Revised edition (Simon & Schuster, December 1, 1978), cover price $24.95
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9780517509517 | Crown Pub, August 1, 1971, cover price $35.00 | also contains Bioethics: A Nursing Perspective | About this edition: Features 17 American plays from 1963 to 1967 presented in the New York theatre.
Book by John gassner
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9780030813191, titled "A Treasury of the Theatre." | 4th edition (Holt Rinehart & Winston, June 1, 1970), cover price $44.95
9780671756307 | Simon & Schuster, March 1, 1970, cover price $74.85 | About this edition: Book by John gassner
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9780671756208 | Revised edition (Simon & Schuster, June 1, 1968), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Book by John gassner
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9780517509494 | Crown Pub, June 1, 1967, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Contains 16 early American plays and discusses American theatrical history and techniques of production
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9780517508602 | Crown Pub, June 1, 1963, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Containing the complete text of 17 plays, this important volume brings up to the mid-century mark John Gassner's "Best Plays" series --- a selection of 79 plays from the formative period of 1916-1929 through the season of 1950-1951
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9780517504505 | Supplement edition (Crown Pub, June 1, 1961), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: 1961 CROWN PUBLISHING HARDCOVER
European plays produced successfully in America include The Lark, My Three Angels, and The Play's the Thing
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9780517509630 | Crown Pub, June 1, 1957, cover price $22.50 | About this edition: European plays produced successfully in America include The Lark, My Three Angels, and The Play's the Thing
Traces the development of drama from primitive times, discussing the works and ideas of each major playwright
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9780486201009 | 3 edition (Dover Pubns, June 1, 1953), cover price $10.00 | About this edition: Traces the development of drama from primitive times, discussing the works and ideas of each major playwright
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9780517509500 | Crown Pub, June 1, 1952, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Contains the complete texts of 17 plays and biographical information about each playwright with a critical appraisal of his works
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9780671756109 | Revised edition (Simon & Schuster, June 1, 1951), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Book by
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9780517504369 | Crown Pub, June 1, 1951, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: A collection of 17 popular, contemporary plays including Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Picnic, The Crucible, The Matchmaker, and The Seven Year Itch
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9780517513736 | Crown Pub, June 1, 1947, cover price $8.25
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