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Critical Survey of Drama, 3rd Edition

Table of Contents

Publisher’s Note




Contributors




Complete Contents




American Drama




Contemporary American Drama




African American Drama




Asian American Drama




Latino Drama




Native American Drama




American Regional Theater




New York Theater: on and off-Broadway




Obie Awards




Pulitzer Prizes




Tony Awards




British Medieval Drama




Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama




Restoration Drama




Eighteenth Century British Drama




Nineteenth Century British Drama




Twentieth Century British Drama




Contemporary British Drama




Irish Drama




Preclassical Drama




Classical Greek and Roman Drama




Medieval Drama on the Continent




Renaissance Drama




Central and Southeastern European Drama




French Drama Since the 1600’s




German Drama Since the 1600’s




Italian Drama Since the 1600’s




Russian Drama Since the 1600’s




Scandinavian Drama Since the 1600’s




Spanish Drama Since the 1600’s




Primitive Drama




Postcolonial Theater




Movements in Modern Drama




English-Language African Drama




French-Language African Drama




Asian Drama




Chinese Drama




Indian Drama




Islamic Drama




Japanese Drama




Korean Drama




Southeast Asian Drama




Australian Drama




Canadian Drama




Latin American Drama




West Indian Drama




Dramatic Genres




Melodrama




Vaudeville




Musical Drama




English-Language Opera




Western European Opera




Deaf Theater




Experimental Theater




Feminist Theater




Gay and Lesbian Theater




Political Theater




Cinema and Drama




Radio Drama




Television Drama




Acting Styles




Monologue and Soliloquy




Staging and Production




Adapting Novels to the Stage




Kōbō Abe




Kjeld Abell




Arthur Adamov




Joseph Addison




David Adjmi




Aeschylus




Isidora Aguirre




Derek Ahonen




Joanne Akalaitis




Ayad Akhtar




Vassily Aksyonov




Edward Albee




Vittorio Alfieri




Carl Jonas Love Almqvist




Serafín Álvarez Quintero and Joaquín Álvarez Quintero




Maxwell Anderson




Robert Anderson




Leonid Andreyev




Jean Anouilh




Ludwig Anzengruber




Guillaume Apollinaire




John Arden




Pietro Aretino




Ludovico Ariosto




Aristophanes




Fernando Arrabal




Mikhail Artsybashev




Miguel Ángel Asturias




W. H. Auden




Émile Augier




Alan Ayckbourn




Joanna Baillie




Jon Robin Baitz




Annie Baker




James Baldwin




John Bale




Amiri Baraka




James Nelson Barker




Peter Barnes




Sir James Barrie




Philip Barry




Henry Bataille




Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais




Francis Beaumont




Samuel Beckett




Henry Becque




Brendan Behan




Aphra Behn




S. N. Behrman




David Belasco




Stephen Belber




Jacinto Benavente y Martínez




Alan Bennett




Hjalmar Bergman




Jean-Jacques Bernard




Thomas Bernhard




Henry Bernstein




Rudolf Besier




Ugo Betti




Robert Montgomery Bird




Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson




Lee Blessing




Aleksandr Blok




Eric Bogosian




George H. Boker




Robert Bolt




Edward Bond




Gordon Bottomley




Dion Boucicault




Roberto Bracco




Volker Braun




Bertolt Brecht




Howard Brenton




James Bridie




Eugène Brieux




Richard Brome




Robert Browning




Ferdinand Bruckner




Georg Büchner




Antonio Buero Vallejo




Mikhail Bulgakov




Ed Bullins




Edward Bulwer-Lytton




Alexander Buzo




Dino Buzzati




George Gordon, Lord Byron




Pedro Calderón de la Barca




Albert Camus




Minna Canth




Karel Čapek




Ion Luca Caragiale




Marina Carr




Alejandro Casona




Mrs. Susannah Centlivre




Miguel de Cervantes




Aimé Césaire




George Chapman




Mary Chase




Anton Chekhov




Luigi Chiarelli




Monzaemon Chikamatsu




Alice Childress




Frank Chin




Caryl Churchill




Colley Cibber




John Pepper Clark-Bekederemo




Austin Clarke




Martha Clarke




Paul Claudel




Jean Cocteau




Padraic Colum




William Congreve




Marc Connelly




Pierre Corneille




Noël Coward




Michael Cristofer




Mart Crowley




John Crowne




Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz




Franz Theodor Csokor




Richard Cumberland




François de Curel




Gabriele D’Annunzio




Sir William Davenant




Robertson Davies




Owen Davis




Eduardo De Filippo




Thomas Dekker




Shelagh Delaney




Giambattista Della Porta




Merrill Denison




Denis Diderot




Steven Dietz




Owen Dodson




Tankred Dorst




John Drinkwater




John Dryden




Alexandre Dumas, fils




Alexandre Dumas, père




William Dunlap




Lord Dunsany




Christopher Durang




Marguerite Duras




Friedrich Dürrenmatt




José Echegaray y Eizaguirre




Rinde Eckert




Lonne Elder III




T. S. Eliot




Juan del Encina




Quintus Ennius




Will Eno




Paul Ernst




St. John Ervine




Sir George Etherege




Euripides




Nikolai Evreinov




George Farquhar




Edna Ferber




António Ferreira




Georges Feydeau




Henry Fielding




Harvey Fierstein




Clyde Fitch




Marieluise Fleisser




John Fletcher




Dario Fo




Denis Ivanovich Fonvizin




Horton Foote




Samuel Foote




John Ford




Richard Foreman




Maria Irene Fornes




Michael Frayn




Aleksander Fredro




Brian Friel




Max Frisch




Christopher Fry




Athol Fugard




Charles Fuller




John Galsworthy




Griselda Gambaro




Gao Ming




Federico García Lorca




Robert Garnier




George Gascoigne




John Gay




Jack Gelber




Jean Genet




Michel de Ghelderode




Giuseppe Giacosa




William Gibson




W. S. Gilbert




Rebecca Gilman




Frank D. Gilroy




Gina Gionfriddo




Giambattista Giraldi Cinthio




Jean Giraudoux




Susan Glaspell




Johann Wolfgang von Goethe




Nikolai Gogol




Carlo Goldoni




Oliver Goldsmith




Witold Gombrowicz




Prince Gomolvilas




Maxim Gorky




Carlo Gozzi




Christian Dietrich Grabbe




Harley Granville-Barker




Günter Grass




Simon Gray




Spalding Gray




Paul Green




Richard Greenberg




Graham Greene




Robert Greene




Lady Augusta Gregory




Alexander Griboyedov




Franz Grillparzer




Andreas Gryphius




John Guare




Battista Guarini




Stephen Adly Guirgis




A. R. Gurney, Jr.




Lauren Gunderson




Peter Hacks




Jessica Hagedorn




Tawfiq al-Hakim




Katori Hall




Willis Hall




Peter Handke




Lorraine Hansberry




Thomas Hardy




David Hare




David Harrower




Lorenz Hart




Moss Hart




Gerhart Hauptmann




Václav Havel




Friedrich Hebbel




Gunnar Heiberg




Johan Ludvig Heiberg




Herman Heijermans




Lillian Hellman




Beth Henley




James Ene Henshaw




Amy Herzog




DuBose Heyward




John Heywood




Thomas Heywood




Rolf Hochhuth




Fritz Hochwälder




Hugo von Hofmannsthal




Ludvig Holberg




Sam Holcroft




Israel Horovitz




Ödön von Horváth




Bronson Howard




Sidney Howard




Tina Howe




Quiara Alegría Hudes




Victor Hugo




Samuel D. Hunter




David Henry Hwang




Henrik Ibsen




Elizabeth Inchbald




William Inge




Albert Innaurato




Eugène Ionesco




David Ives




Henry James




Alfred Jarry




Elizabeth Jolley




Henry Arthur Jones




Preston Jones




Ben Jonson




Rajiv Joseph




Georg Kaiser




Kālidāsa




Sarah Kane




Tadeusz Kantor




George S. Kaufman




Adrienne Kennedy




Sidney Kingsley




Heinar Kipphardt




Jack Kirkland




Aleksis Kivi




Heinrich von Kleist




Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock




James Sheridan Knowles




Pavel Kohout




Arthur Kopit




Bernard Kops




August von Kotzebue




Larry Kramer




Zygmunt Krasiński




Karl Kraus




Franz Xaver Kroetz




Tony Kushner




Thomas Kyd




Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée




Eugène Labiche




Pär Lagerkvist




Arthur Laurents




Ray Lawler




Halldór Laxness




Nathaniel Lee




Henri-René Lenormand




Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz




Hugh Leonard




Mikhail Lermontov




Alain-René Lesage




Gotthold Ephraim Lessing




Matthew Gregory Lewis




George Lillo




David Lindsay-Abaire




Romulus Linney




Henry Livings




Thomas Lodge




John Logan




Kenneth Lonergan




Frederick Lonsdale




Earl Lovelace




Craig Lucas




Charles Ludlam




Otto Ludwig




John Lyly




Donagh MacDonagh




Antonio Machado




Eduardo Machado




Niccolò Machiavelli




Archibald MacLeish




Imre Madách




Maurice Maeterlinck




Francesco Scipione Maffei




Jean Mairet




David Mamet




Gómez Manrique




Patrick Marber




Donald Margulies




Marivaux




Christopher Marlowe




John Marston




Jane Martin




Francisco Martínez de la Rosa




Gregorio Martínez Sierra and María Martínez Sierra




Edward Martyn




John Masefield




Philip Massinger




W. Somerset Maugham




François Mauriac




Vladimir Mayakovsky




Carson McCullers




Martin McDonagh




John McGrath




Terrence McNally




Conor McPherson




Mark Medoff




Henry Medwall




Menander




Louis-Sébastien Mercier




Pietro Metastasio




Thomas Middleton




Edna St. Vincent Millay




Arthur Miller




Lin-Manuel Miranda




Yukio Mishima




Molière




Ferenc Molnár




Henry de Montherlant




Leandro Fernández de Moratín




Alberto Moravia




Agustín Moreto y Cabaña




Dominique Morisseau




John Mortimer




Hannah Moscovitch




Tad Mosel




Sławomir Mrożek




Heiner Müller




Kaj Munk




Alfred de Musset




Gnaeus Naevius




Thomas Nashe




Johann Nestroy




Ngugi wa Thiong’o




Giovanni Battista Niccolini




Peter Nichols




Marsha Norman




Bruce Norris




Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville




Lynn Nottage




Sean O’Casey




Clifford Odets




Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger




Yury Olesha




Eugene O’Neill




István Örkény




Joe Orton




John Osborne




Alexander Ostrovsky




Thomas Otway




Eric Overmyer




Rochelle Owens




Suzan-Lori Parks




John Patrick




Robert Patrick




John Howard Payne




George Peele




Joe Penhall




Benito Pérez Galdós




Caryl Phillips




Arthur Wing Pinero




Robert Pinget




Harold Pinter




Luigi Pirandello




Guilbert de Pixérécourt




James Robinson Planché




Plautus




Bernard Pomerance




François Ponsard




Henrik Pontoppidan




J. B. Priestley




James Purdy




Alexander Pushkin




Philippe Quinault




David Rabe




Jean Racine




Ferdinand Raimund




Nina Raine




Adam Rapp




Terence Rattigan




James Reaney




Jean-François Regnard




Yasmina Reza




Ronald Ribman




Elmer Rice




Lynn Riggs




Thomas William Robertson




Lennox Robinson




Jules Romains




Edmond Rostand




Ola Rotimi




Jean de Rotrou




Nicholas Rowe




Tadeusz Różewicz




Paul Rudnick




Lope de Rueda




Sarah Ruhl




Juan Ruiz de Alarcón




George Ryga




Ángel de Saavedra




Hans Sachs




Howard Sackler




Luis Rafael Sánchez




Sonia Sanchez




Victorien Sardou




Frank Sargeson




William Saroyan




Jean-Paul Sartre




Alfonso Sastre




Robert Schenkkan




Friedrich Schiller




Murray Schisgal




Arthur Schnitzler




Eugène Scribe




Seneca the Younger




Thomas Shadwell




Peter Shaffer




William Shakespeare: The Dramatist




William Shakespeare: The Man




Ntozake Shange




John Patrick Shanley




George Bernard Shaw




Irwin Shaw




Wallace Shawn




Percy Bysshe Shelley




Sam Shepard




Richard Brinsley Sheridan




R. C. Sherriff




Robert E. Sherwood




James Shirley




Yevgeny Shvarts




Neil Simon




Bernard Slade




Juliusz Słowacki




Stephen Sondheim




Sophocles




Wole Soyinka




Nick Stafford




Sir Richard Steele




Simon Stephens




Carl Sternheim




Tom Stoppard




David Storey




Botho Strauss




August Strindberg




Hermann Sudermann




Alexander Sukhovo-Kobylin




Aleksandr Petrovich Sumarokov




Algernon Charles Swinburne




John Millington Synge




George Tabori




Rabindranath Tagore




Manuel Tamayo y Baus




Torquato Tasso




Alfred, Lord Tennyson




Terence




Megan Terry




Steve Tesich




Dylan Thomas




Ludwig Tieck




Tirso De Molina




Ernst Toller




Bartolomé de Torres Naharro




Cyril Tourneur




Michel Tremblay




William Trevor




Giangiorgio Trissino




Tristan L’hermite




Ivan Turgenev




Royall Tyler




Nicholas Udall




Alfred Uhry




Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo




Rodolfo Usigli




Luis Miguel Valdez




Ramón María del Valle-Inclán




John William van Druten




Sir John Vanbrugh




Lope de Vega Carpio




Giovanni Verga




Gil Vicente




Maruxa Vilalta




George Villiers




Paula Vogel




Voltaire




Joost van den Vondel




Wakefield Master




Derek Walcott




Joseph A. Walker




Martin Walser




Wendy Wasserstein




John Webster




Frank Wedekind




Peter Weiss




Fay Weldon




Franz Werfel




Timberlake Wertenbaker




Arnold Wesker




Patrick White




John Whiting




Oscar Wilde




Thornton Wilder




Paul Willems




Emlyn Williams




Tennessee Williams




David Williamson




August Wilson




Lanford Wsilson




Robert Wilson




Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz




Friedrich Wolf




Craig Wright




Doug Wright




William Wycherley




Stanisław Wyspiański




William Butler Yeats




Yevgeny Zamyatin




Israel Zangwill




Motokiyo Zeami




Paul Zindel




Émile Zola




José Zorrilla y Moral




Carl Zuckmayer




Arnold Zweig




Appendices




Drama——Major Awards




Geographical Index of Dramatists




Dramatic Terms and Movements




Time Line




Bibliography