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Writings about drama, including literary and dramatic criticism.
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Guide to the plays of August Wilson including annotated bibliographies, annotated reviews of each of the plays, and links to other resources dealing with his work.
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A biography reviewing the life of George Bernard Shaw.
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A bibliography of resources in dramatic writing and production.
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The term "comedy" as applied to a division of the drama was not used in England until the Renaissance had brought a knowledge of the classical drama and theatre.
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To Ibsen, from beginning to end, every human being is a sacrifice, whilst to Dickens he is a farce. And there you have the whole difference.
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Let us imagine a community of a thousand persons, organized for the perpetuation of the species on the basis of the British family as we know it at present.
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This site has been maintained since 1996 to provide easy access to useful research sites throughout the world.
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An essay on the history and significance of Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest.
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Links to scholarly journals about drama and theatre.
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TDR provides scholarship on performances and their social, economic and political contexts, with an emphasis on the experimental, avant-garde, intercultural and interdisciplinary.
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Archives articles, reviews and bibliographies about productions of David Mamet plays.
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Theater covers theater and social change, children's theater, Soviet theater, theater and photography, paratheater, theater and revolution, and theater and the apocalypse.
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Theatre Journal features social and historical studies, production reviews, and theoretical inquiries that analyze dramatic texts and production.
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Theatre Topics focuses on performance studies, dramaturgy, and theatre pedagogy.
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Links to other websites about drama and theatre.
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Computational linguistics resources for analysis of canonical theatre.
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A collection of resources about the Middle English Play Cycles.
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Some of the resources that are available on the Internet.
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The scripts from plays, organized by historical period.
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Roman and Greek drama.
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Surviving plays by the Greek dramatist Aeschylus.
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A high-quality PDF edition of Agamemnon.
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A plain-text edition of the Choephori (the Libation Bearers).
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A high-quality PDF edition of the Choephori (the Libation Bearers).
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A high-quality PDF edition of the Eumenides.
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Plays by Aristophanes, the classical Greek dramatist.
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Aristophanes's depiction of Socrates in the Clouds is in good part a comic distortion.
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The Frogs turns upon the decline of tragic art.
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The Knights may be reckoned the Aristophanes's masterpiece, a direct personal attack on the then all-powerful Cleon.
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Following Lysistrata during the reign of terror established by oligarchist conspirators, this play has a proper intrigue, a knot which is not untied till quite the end.
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The purpose of this play was to satirize the love of litigation common to the Athenians, whose delight it was to spend their time in the law-courts.
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Ajax is the earliest (maybe) Sophoclean play still in existence. He allegedly said that during this period he was trying to write like Aeschylus.
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Creon, the king of Thebes, forbids the burial of those who rebelled against his rule. Antigone, soon to marry Creon's son, disobeys this edict to bury her brother Polyneices.
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It is extremely difficult to read this play without thinking of the middle portion of Aeschylus' trilogy.
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The Oedipus Trilogy was originally written by Sophocles and is meant to be told in a story-telling fashion.
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This play also engages on of the great controversies of its time: nature vs. nurture.
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In Greek this play is known as "the women of Trachis," and refers to the identity of the chorus.
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Recent plays.
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Eighteenth-century/Enlightenment drama.
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Medieval drama, mostly European.
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Plays from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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Bernard Shaw's 1894 play about bourgeois competence and mendacity.
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Bernard Shaw's 1916 classic work of modern drama.
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The Importance of Being Earnest, in three acts.
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Nineteenth-century drama.
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Renaissance/Early Modern drama.
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Seventeenth-century/Restoration drama.
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