西方戏剧

Part Ⅰ Introduction to Drama

Part Ⅱ A Brief History of Drama

Part Ⅲ Great Playwrights and Their Works

1 Sophocles

Oedipus Rex

2 William Shakespeare

Hamlet

3 Moliere

The Miser

4 Henrik Ibsen

5 Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The Cherry Orchard

6 George Bernard Shaw

Major Barbara

7 Eugene Gladstone O'Neill

Long Day's Woman of Setzuan

8 Bertolt Brecht

The Good Woman of Setzuan

9 Tennessee Williams

The Glass Menagerie

10 Arthur Miller

Death of a Saleman

11 Samuel Beckett

Waiting for Godot

12 Harold Pinter

The Caretaker

Part Ⅳ The Study of One Play

Hedda Gabler

Appendix

Types of Drama and Critical Terms

Selected Bibligraphy

《新经典高等学校英语专业系列教材：西方戏剧》由四部分组成：戏剧概要介绍、戏剧史纵览、12位重要剧作家及其作品选读和一部完整的剧作赏析，具有如下特点：从基础入手，详略得当地介绍西方戏剧发展的源流；既有对西方戏剧从戏剧理论、创作过程、戏剧史等角度所作的总体介绍，又有对各个时代戏剧发展的细致阐述；既有对西方戏剧作家、作品的整体评述，又有对某个作家及其作品的具体分析；在剧作家及其选篇后提出思考题目，由浅入深，引导读者积极思考。