The Norton Anthology of Drama

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by J. Ellen Gainor

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The leading anthology of drama offers the most generous collection of major works (66 plays in all, 7 of them new) along with carefully prepared introductions, annotations, and texts. With a newly conceived illustration program focused on contemporary performance and a new color feature, “Plays in Performance,” the Second Edition now brings the stage to the page more vividly than any other anthology. J. Ellen Gainor is a professor of theater in the Performing and Media Arts department at Cornell University. She is the author of two books, Shaw’s Daughters: Dramatic and Narrative Constructions of Gender (1992) and Susan Glaspell in Context: American Theater, Culture, and Politics, 1915–48 (2003). Her edited volumes include Imperialism and Theater (1995) and Performing America: Cultural Nationalism in American Theater (2001). She is the co-editor, with Linda Bel-Zvi, of Susan Glaspell: The Complete Plays (2010). 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. Used Book in Good Condition

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