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The Wadsworth Anthology of Drama Brief Edition
Contributor(s): Worthen, W. (Author)

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 ISBN: 1428288155     ISBN-13: 9781428288157
Publisher: Cengage Learning
OUR PRICE: $118.70  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: January 2010
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BISAC Categories:
- Drama | Anthologies (multiple Authors)
Dewey: 790.203
LCCN: 2009941920
Physical Information: 1.4" H x 7.9" W x 9.9" L (3.65 lbs) 1104 pages
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents, Textbook
 
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Publisher Description:
The boldest and most distinguished introduction to drama available today, W.B. Worthen's pace-setting text continues to provide exciting plays usefully situated within their historical and cultural contexts. Based on the best-selling WADSWORTH ANTHOLOGY OF DRAMA, the Brief Edition provides many of the important elements of that anthology but in a more streamlined form.

Contributor Bio(s): Worthen, W. B.: - W. B. Worthen, Alice Brady Pels Professor in the Arts, is Professor and Chair of the Department of Theater at Barnard College, Columbia University. He is the author of Shakespeare and the Force of Modern Performance (Cambridge University Press, 2003) Shakespeare and the Authority of Performance (Cambridge University Press, 1997), Modern Drama and the Rhetoric of Theater (University of California Press, 1992), The Idea of the Actor: Drama and the Ethics of Performance (Princeton University Press, 1984), Modern Drama: Plays, Criticism, Theory (Wadsworth, 1995), and of many articles on modern drama, Shakespeare, and theories of performance. Professor Worthen received his B. A. in English from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and his Ph.D. in English from Princeton University, and has held research fellowships form the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment of the Humanities. He is past editor of Theatre Journal and current coeditor of Modern Drama.
 
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