Plays for the Theatre is an anthology of plays to be used as readings in the introduction to theatre course or other theatre courses that require a selection of plays.

Plays for the Theatre: A Drama Anthology

Oscar G. Brockett

Humor & Entertainment

Harcourt College Pub.

The Essential Theater with Plays

Harcourt Brace College

The esential theatre seventh edition

The Essential Theatre

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

Harcourt

This edition has been revised to sharpen, update, and reinterpret information, and the whole text has been reorganized to highlight European and American theatre, as well as the theatre of Asia. A new chapter has been added on the theatre of Africa, and chapter 17, "Theatre and Drama after 1968," has been updated.

History of the Theatre

Allyn&Bacon

Theatrical scene design is one of the most beautiful, varied, and lively art forms. Yet there are relatively few books on the subject, and almost none for a general audience that combine expansive scholarship with lavish design. Making the Scene offers an unprecedented survey of the evolving context, theory, and practice of scene design from ancient Greek times to the present, coauthored by the world's best-known authority on the subject and enhanced by three hundred full-color illustrations.
Individual chapters of the book focus on Greece, Rome, Medieval Europe (including liturgical drama, street pageants, festival outdoor drama, Spanish religious drama, and royal entries), the Italian Renaissance, eighteenth-century Europe, Classicism to Romanticism, Realism and Naturalism, Modernism, and contemporary scene design. Making the Scene's authors review everything from the effects of social status on theatre design to the sea changes between Classicism, Romanticism, and Naturalism and the influence of perspective-based thought. Particularly intriguing is their rediscovery of lost tricks and techniques, from the classical deus ex machina and special effects in coliseums to medieval roving stage wagons and the floating ships of the Renaissance to the computerized practices of today's theatres. Such ingenious techniques, interwoven with the sweeping beauty of scene design through the ages, combine with the keen scholarship of Oscar Brockett and Margaret Mitchell to create a book as involving as the art it showcases.

Making the Scene: A History of Stage Design and Technology in Europe and the United States

MARGARET MITCHELL

Tobin Theatre Arts Fund

Back of book states: "Featuring both historical and contemporary drama. Plays for the Theatre offers a wonderful selection of plays that have shaped today's theatre. Oscar G Brockett and Robert J ball include 15 works that exemplify cultural diversity and dramatic power. This edition includes two new plays and accompanying introductions. Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest and Sam Shepard's Buried Child.

Plays for the Theatre Ninth Edition Instructer's Edition (Wadsworth Series in Theatre) by Oscar G Brockett (2006-05-03)

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

Michael Rosenberg

History of the Theatre by Oscar G. Brockett and Franklin J. HildyCustom edition for the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, adapted from the ninth edition.

History of the Theatre Custom Edition for the American Academy of Dramatic Arts Ninth Edition

Pearson

The Essential Theatre: Custom Edition for Joliet Junior College

Cengage Learning'

John Fleming

Andrew Carlson

Robert J. Ball

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Oscar G. Brockett. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Oscar G. Brockett