TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chirico,Miriam M.
AU  - Younger,Kelly
TI  - How to teach a play: essential exercises for popular plays 
SN  - 9781350017535
AV  - PN1701 .H698 2020
U1  - 792.071 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - London
PB  - Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
KW  - Drama
KW  - Study and teaching
KW  - Activity programs
N1  - Introduction -- The exercises. Hubris and Hamartia based on Aristotle's Poetics -- Agamemnon / Aeschylus -- The Eumenides / Aeschylus -- Antigone/ Sophocles -- Oedipus the King / Sophocles -- Medea / Euripides -- Lysistrata / Aristophanes -- The Twin Menaechmi / Plautus -- The Second Shepherd's Play / The Wakefield Master -- Atsumori / Zeami Motokiyo -- Everyman / Anonymous -- A Midsummer Night's Dream / William Shakespeare -- Romeo and Juliet / William Shakespeare -- The Merchant of Venice / William Shakespeare -- The Tragedy of Hamlet / William Shakespeare -- The Tragedy of Othello / William Shakespeare -- Measure for Measure / William Shakespeare -- The Tragedy of King Lear / William Shakespeare -- The Tempest / William Shakespeare -- Life is a Dream / Pedro Calderon de la Barca -- Tartuffe / Moliere -- Restoration Theater audiences -- The Country Wife / William Wycherley -- The Rover / Aphra Behn -- The Way of the World / William Congreve -- The School for Scandal / Richard Brinsley Sheridan -- Woyzeck / Georg Buchner -- A Doll's House / Henrik Ibsen -- Miss Julie / August Strindberg -- Hedda Gabler / Henrik Ibsen -- The Importance of Being Earnest / Oscar Wilde -- Three Sisters / Anton Chekhov -- The Cherry Orchard / Anton Chekhov -- Pygmalion / George Bernard Shaw -- Trifles / Susan Glaspell -- Six Characters in Search of an Author / Luigi Pirandello -- Juno and the Paycock / Sean O'Casey -- Machinal / Sophie Treadwell -- The House of Bernarda Alba / Federico Garcia Lorca -- Our Town / Thorton Wilder -- Mother Courage and Her Children / Bertolt Brecht -- Long Day's Journey into Night / Eugene O'Neill -- The Glass Menagerie / Tennessee Williams -- Death of a Salesman / Arthur Miller -- Waiting for Godot / Samuel Beckett -- The Crucible / Arthur Miller -- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof / Tennessee Williams -- Endgame / Samuel Beckett -- The Birthday Party / Harold Pinter -- Rhinoceros / Eugene Ionesco -- A Raisin in the Sun / Lorraine Hansberry -- The Zoo Story / Edward Albee -- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? / Edward Albee -- Dutchman / Amiri Baraka -- The Homecoming / Harold Pinter -- The House of Blue Leaves / John Guare -- Death and the King's Horseman / Wole Soyinka -- Fefu and her Friends / Maria Irene Fornes -- And the Soul Shall Dance / Wakako Yamauchi -- Zoot Suit / Luis Valdez -- True West / Sam Shepard -- Top Girls / Caryl Churchill -- Cloud Nine / Caryl Churchill -- "Master Harold"...and the Boys / Athol Fugard -- Glengarry Glen Ross / David Mamet -- Fences / August Wilson -- The Other Shore / Gao Xingjian -- The Piano Lesson / August Wilson -- M. Butterfly / David Henry Hwang -- Fires in the Mirror / Anna Deavere Smith -- Angels in America, Part One / Tony Kushner -- Information for Foreigners / Griselda Gambaro -- Oleanna / David Mamet -- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead / Tom Stoppard -- Blasted / Sarah Kane -- "Art" / Yasmina Reza -- How I Learned to Drive / Paula Vogel -- Topdog/Underdog / Suzan-Lori Parks -- Doubt: a Parable / John Patrick Shanley --Dead Man's Cell Phone / Sarah Ruhl -- Water by the Spoonful / Quiara Alegria Hudes -- Sweat / Lynn Nottage -- Vietgone / Qui Nguyen
N2  - "Most students encounter drama as they do poetry and fiction - as literature to be read - but never experience the performative nature of theater. How to Teach a Play provides new strategies for teaching dramatic literature and offers practical, play-specific exercises that demonstrate how performance illuminates close reading of the text. This practical guide provides a new generation of teachers and theatre professionals the tools to develop their students' performative imagination. Featuring more than 80 exercises, How to Teach a Play provides teaching strategies for the most commonly taught plays, ranging from classical through contemporary drama. Developed by contributors from a range of disciplines, these exercises reveal the variety of practitioners that make up the theatrical arts; they are written by playwrights, theater directors, and artistic directors, as well as by dramaturgs and drama scholars. In bringing together so many different perspectives, this book highlights the distinctive qualities that makes theater such a dynamic genre. This collection offers an array of proven approaches for anyone teaching drama: literature and theater professors; high school teachers; dramaturgs and directors. Written in an accessible and jargon-free style, both instructors and directors can immediately apply the activity to the classroom or rehearsal. Whether you specialize in drama or only teach a play every now and again, these exercises will inspire you to modify, transform, and reinvent your own role in the dramatic arts"-- Publisher's website
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