The Compact Bedford Introduction to Drama

<strong>The Compact Bedford Introduction to Drama</strong> presents a wellbalanced selectionof plays commentaries and casebooks in a concise affordable format. ... » 

The Compact Bedford Introduction to Drama presents a wellbalanced selectionof plays commentaries and casebooks in a concise affordable format. Its 29chronologically arranged plays represent every major period from classic timesto the present. With indepth treatment of William Shakespeare a strongrepresentation of plays by women and American multicultural plays and anexciting contemporary section loaded with prize winners The Compact BedfordIntroduction to Drama has the plays you want to teach and features designed tohelp students think critically about all aspects of a play as a work ofliterature and as a performance.Giving students a rich understanding of the plays and the contexts from whichthey emerge the anthology offers 33 commentaries two casebooks the mostextensive collection of theater photographs available in a text of this kindcoverage of writing about drama and a robust companion web site with help forstudents and instructors. «