* Introduction.
The Play’s the Thing.
Origins of Drama.
Aristotle on Tragedy.
Plot.
Characterization.
Theme.
Diction.
Spectacle.
Brief History and Description of Dramatic Conventions.
Film Versions: A Note.

*Writing About Drama.

*Drama.
Sophocles (496?-406 B. C.), Oedipus the King, trans. Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616), The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice.
Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906), A Doll House, trans. Rolfe Fjelde.
Susan Glaspell (1882-1948), Trifles.
Tennessee Williams (1911-1983), The Glass Menagerie.
Arthur Miller (B. 1915), Death of a Salesman.
Edward Albee, (B. 1928), The Sandbox.
Athol Fugard (B. 1932), “Master Harold” . . . and the boys.
August Wilson (B. 1945), Fences.
David Ives (B. 1950), Sure Thing.
Paula Vogel (b. 1951), How I Learned to Drive.
Catherine Celesia Allen (B. ?), Anything for You.

Acknowledgements.

List of Critical Terms.