The Norton Anthology of Drama: Antiquity through the eighteenth century

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W. W. Norton, 2009 - Drama - 1648 pages
The most comprehensive and distinctive collection of its kind, The Norton Anthology of Drama, Volume 1 offers thirty major plays, the most carefully prepared introductions, annotations, and play texts, and a distinctive and convenient format. Less expensive than rival anthologies, The Norton Anthology of Drama is also the best value a book that students will keep long after the class is over."

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INTRODUCTION
1
Reading Drama Imagining Theater
81
AESCHYLUS
89
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J. Ellen Gainor is Associate Professor of Theatre, Women's Studies, and American Studies, Cornell University.

Stanton B. Garner, Jr. is Professor of English and Adjunct Professor of Theatre at the University of Tennessee. He is the author of The Absent Voice: Narrative Comprehension in the Theater (1989), Bodied Spaces: Phenomenology and Performance in Contemporary Drama (1994), and Trevor Griffiths: Politics, Drama, History (1999). He served as guest editor for a special issue of Modern Drama on the topic of Theatre and Medicine (2008).

Martin Puchner, the Byron and Anita Wien Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Harvard University, is a prize-winning author, educator, public speaker, and institution-builder in the arts and humanities. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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