english drama

Contains a comprehensive guide to the thirty-nine plays of William Shakespeare including plot summaries, historic and contemporary photographs, and detailed illustrations.

Includes The N. Towne Betrayal; The York Crucifixion; The Wakefield Noah; The Wakefield Second Shepherds' Play; Everyman; Gammer Gurton's Needle; Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay; The Spanish Tragedy; Dr. Faustus.

Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, discusses the author and the theater of his time, and provides quizzes and other study activities.

Presents teacher-tested classroom strategies for teaching William Shakespeare's "Othello" and "Twelfth Night"; techniques for teaching them through performance; and four scholarly essays on the plays, designed to stimulate teachers' thinking and challenge older students.

Presents teacher-tested classroom strategies for teaching William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," "Romeo and Juliet," and "Macbeth"; techniques for teaching them through performance; and four scholarly essays on the plays, designed to stimulate teachers' thinking and challenge older students.

Contains the play "Man and Superman," a comedy that portrays Don Juan as the quarry instead of the huntsman, and three other plays by Irish-born playwright George Bernard Shaw; and includes commentaries, chronologies, notes, and discussion questions.

The scenes contained in this volume are presented exactly as written by the playwrights, with no internal deletions. The introductions to each follow the headings "Characters," "Scene," and "Time"; the playwrights' stage directions are contained in parentheses. If any two-character scene is interrupted by a third character, some external business, or an event which would be difficult to reproduce in a classroom or audition situation, we have enclosed the section in brackets as a suggested cut.

The King of France gives Helena the hand of any man she wants in marriage, but the one she chooses, Bertram, flees to Tuscany, and she must use her wits to get him back; this text includes background on the play's sources and stage history, as well as a textual analysis.

A collection of more than one hundred scenes to be performed by two actors.