Writing about Plays 1349
Drama 945
25 How to Read a Play 947 Thinking about the Language of Drama 947 Plot and Character 950
Susan Glaspell, Trifles 953 Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie 963 A Context for The Glass Menagerie 1009
Tennessee Williams, Production Notes 1009
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26 Tragedy 1014 A Note on Greek Tragedy 1018 Two Plays by Sophocles 1019
Sophocles, Oedipus the King 1019 Sophocles, Antigone 1062
A Play by Shakespeare 1098 A Note on the Elizabethan Theater 1098 A Note on the Texts of Hamlet 1099 Portfolio: Hamlet on the Stage 1105
William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark 1108
27 Comedy 1220 William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s
Dream 1223
28 Two Plays about Marriage 1280 Henrik Ibsen, A Doll’s House 1281 Contexts for A Doll’s House 1334
Henrik Ibsen, Notes for the Tragedy of Modern Times 1334
Henrik Ibsen, Adaptations of A Doll’s House for a German Production 1335
Henrik Ibsen, Speech at the Banquet of the Norwegian League for Women’s Rights 1335
Clare Booth Luce, Slam the Door Softly 1337
29 Students Writing about Plays 1349 Plot and Conflict 1349 Character 1350 Tragedy 1350 Comedy 1351 Nonverbal Language 1351 The Play in Performance 1351
Getting Ready to Write 1352 Writing about a Filmed Version of a Play 1352 Checklist:Writing about a Filmed Play 1353 Five Essays by Students 1353
A Student Essay on Plot: The Solid Structure of The Glass Menagerie 1354
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Preliminary Notes 1354 Final Version of the Student’s Essay: The Solid Structure of
The Glass Menagerie 1355 A Student Essay on Setting: What the Kitchen
in Trifles Tells Us 1359 A Student Essay on Character and Theme: Fairy Mischief and
Morality in A Midsummer Night’s Dream 1361 A Student Essay on a Film Version of a Play:Branagh’s Film of
Hamlet 1365 A Student Essay Using Sources: The Women in
Death of a Salesman 1371
