How to Teach a Play: Essential Exercises for Popular Plays

Cover\nContents\nAcknowledgments\nIntroduction\nThe Exercises\nHubris and Hamartia based on Aristotle’s Poetics\nAgamemnon by Aeschylus\nThe Eumenides by Aeschylus\nAntigone by Sophocles\nOedipus the King by Sophocles\nMedea by Euripides\nLysistrata by Aristophanes\nThe Twin Menaechmi by Plautus\nThe Second Shepherd’s Play by The Wakefield Master\nAtsumori by Zeami Motokiyo\nEveryman by Anonymous\nA Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare\nA Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare\nRomeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare\nThe Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare\nThe Tragedy of Hamlet by William Shakespeare\nThe Tragedy of Hamlet by William Shakespeare\nThe Tragedy of Othello by William Shakespeare\nMeasure for Measure by William Shakespeare\nThe Tragedy of King Lear by William Shakespeare\nThe Tempest by William Shakespeare\nLife Is a Dream by Pedro Calderón de la Barca\nTartuffe by Molière\nThe Misanthrope by Molière\nRestoration Theater Audiences\nThe Country Wife by William Wycherley\nThe Rover by Aphra Behn\nThe Way of the World by William Congreve\nThe School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan\nWoyzeck by Georg Büchner\nA Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen\nMiss Julie by August Strindberg\nHedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen\nThe Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde\nThree Sisters by Anton Chekhov\nThe Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov\nPygmalion by George Bernard Shaw\nTrifles by Susan Glaspell\nSix Characters in Search of an Author by Luigi Pirandello\nJuno and the Paycock by Sean O’Casey\nMachinal by Sophie Treadwell\nThe House of Bernarda Alba by Federico García Lorca\nOur Town by Thorton Wilder\nMother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht\nLong Day’s Journey into Night by Eugene O’Neill\nThe Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams\nDeath of a Salesman by Arthur Miller\nWaiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett\nWaiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett\nThe Crucible by Arthur Miller\nCat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams\nEndgame by Samuel Beckett\nThe Birthday Party by Harold Pinter\nRhinoceros by Eugene Ionesco\nA Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry\nThe Zoo Story by Edward Albee\nWho’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee\nDutchman by Amiri Baraka\nThe Homecoming by Harold Pinter\nThe House of Blue Leaves by John Guare\nDeath and the King’s Horseman by Wole Soyinka\nFefu and Her Friends by María Irene Fornés\nAnd the Soul Shall Dance by Wakako Yamauchi\nZoot Suit by Luis Valdez\nTrue West by Sam Shepard\nTop Girls by Caryl Churchill\nCloud Nine by Caryl Churchill\n“Master Harold” … and the Boys by Athol Fugard\nGlengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet\nFences by August Wilson\nThe Other Shore by Gao Xingjian\nThe Piano Lesson by August Wilson\nM. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang\nFires in the Mirror by Anna Deavere Smith\nAngels in America, Part One by Tony Kushner\nInformation for Foreigners by Griselda Gambaro\nOleanna by David Mamet\nRosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard\nBlasted by Sarah Kane\n“Art” by Yasmina Reza\nHow I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel\nTopdog/Underdog by Suzan-Lori Parks\nDoubt: A Parable by John Patrick Shanley\nDead Man’s Cell Phone by Sarah Ruhl\nWater by the Spoonful by Quiara Alegría Hudes\nSweat by Lynn Nottage\nVietgone by Qui Nguyen\nExercise Template