The Norton Anthology of Drama, Volume 1: Antiquity Through the Eighteenth Century by J. Ellen Gainor (Editor), Martin Puchner (Editor), Stanton B. Garner Jr. (Editor)

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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.

Biography

J. Ellen Gainor is Professor of Theatre, Film, and Dance and Associate Dean of the Graduate School at Cornell University. She is the author of Shaw's Daughters: Dramatic and Narrative Constructions of Gender (1992) and Susan Glaspell in Context: American Theater, Culture, and Politics, 1915-48 (2003). She has edited the volumes Imperialism and Theatre (1995) and Performing America: Cultural Nationalism in American Theater (2001) and is currently editing The Complete Plays of Susan Glaspell. She has written extensively on British and American drama of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and also lectures regularly at professional theaters across the United States, in Canada, and abroad.

Stanton B. Garner Jr. is Professor of English at the University of Tennessee. An award-winning teacher of dramatic literature, 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 has also published a wide variety of articles on medieval, Renaissance, and modern drama.

Martin Puchner holds the H. Gordon Garbedian Chair in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and is the author of Stage Fright: Modernism, Anti-Theatricality, and Drama (2002) and Poetry of the Revolution: Marx, Manifestos, and the Avant-Gardes (2006; winner of the MLA's James Russell Lowell Award). His edited books and introductions include Six Plays by Henrik Ibsen (2003), Lionel Abel's Tragedy andMetatheatre (2003), The Communist Manifesto and Other Writings (2005), and Modern Drama: Critical Concepts (2007). He is the co-editor of Against Theatre: Creative Destructions on the Modernist Stage (2006) and currently serves as editor of Theatre Survey.