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194 Appendix F Recommended Play Anthologies Play anthologies are useful resources for dramaturgs not merely because they collect significant dramas together in one volume but because the supporting materials (introductions to the plays, thematic models, and other research) can be extremely valuable sources of information, helping to frame ideas about production. Below are some collections published in the last twenty years that will hopefully whet the appetite for finding more on your own. A good dramaturg has many anthologies near at hand, ready for when someone asks for a play recommendation. Barker, Simon. Routledge Anthology of Renaissance Drama. London: Routledge, 2002. This is a useful text that contains a broad cross-section of English early modern drama. Corrigan, Robert W. Classical Tragedy: Greek and Roman. New York: Applause, 1990. This anthology contains solid translations as well as essays by contemporary dramaturgs and directors dealing with both thematic and production issues. Cox, Jeffrey N., and Michael Garner, eds. The Broadview Anthology of Romantic Drama. Peterborough, ON: Broadview, 2003. Broadview publishes a series of reliable anthologies . This one is notable for its wide scope, multiple genres, and inclusion of women writers. Elam, Harry, and Robert Alexander. Colored Contradictions: An Anthology of Contemporary African-American Plays. New York: Plume 1996. This book collects a broad sampling of styles from twelve modern authors and provides some strong meditations on black cultural expression. Evans, G. Blakemore, and J. M. Tobin. The Riverside Shakespeare. 2nd ed. Boston: Heinle, 1996. This is the standard repository of the complete works of William Shakespeare, with critical essays, illustrations, and excellent notes on the texts themselves. This edition includes poems, as well as Edward III and other works now thought to have been by Shakespeare. Fischlin, Daniel, and Mark Fortier. Adaptation of Shakespeare. London: Routledge, 2000. This book assembles adaptations of Shakespeare from the seventeenth cen- tury to the present and from all over the world. A must-have for anyone interested in adaptations. Halman, Talat S., and Jayne L. Warner. Ibrahim the Mad and Other Plays: An Anthology of Modern Turkish Drama. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2008. This recent publication exposes readers to the variety and vitality of Turkish playwriting, which has a long and brilliant history. Jeyifo, Biodun. Modern African Drama. New York: Norton, 2002. A widely representative collection that includes writers from every corner of the continent, this book also contains some eye-opening criticism on issues and materials rarely encountered by Western readers. Johnston, Brian, and Rick Davis. Ibsen’s Selected Plays. New York: Norton, 2003. Johnston and Davis’s translations of the Norwegian master are among the best available, with some sharp contextual materials as well. Kelly, Katherine. Modern Drama by Women 1880s–1930s. London: Routledge, 1996. Kelly’s book collects and translates dramas from the period that are customarily excluded from the canon of emergent realist and antirealist works. King, Woodie, Jr. The National Black Drama Anthology: Eleven Plays from America’s Leading African-American Theaters. New York: Applause, 2000. This is a good resource for some underrepresented authors of the black theater. Kinney, Arthur. Renaissance Drama: An Anthology of Plays and Entertainments. Oxford , UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2000. This text includes a rich sampling of plays and other performance traditions to give a strong sense of the “theatrical culture” of the period. Lonergan, Patrick. The Methuen Drama Anthology of Irish Plays. London: Methuen, 2009. This book contains five landmark dramas of the latter half of the twentieth century. Sandoval-Sanchez, Alberto, and Nancy Saporta Sternbach. Puro Teatro, a Latina Anthology. Tuscon: University of Arizona, 1999. This is a captivating assembly of both well-known and almost unheard-of authors from extremely diverse Latina backgrounds and production contexts. Senelick, Laurence. Anton Chekhov’s Selected Plays. New York: Norton, 2004. Another of the Norton Critical Edition series, Senelick’s translations of Chekhov are muchlauded as vibrant and modern. This edition includes commentary from some of the great twentieth-century directors of Chekhov as well. Stanton, Stephen S. Camille and Other Plays. New York: Hill and Wang, 1990. This is a good source for translations of the great French “well-made” plays of the nineteenth century. Walker, Greg. Medieval Drama: An Anthology. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2000. This is an excellent edition of drama from many periods and places in Europe of the period. Whybrow, Graham. The Methuen Book of Modern Drama: Plays of the ’80s and ’90s. London: Methuen, 2003. A collection of the most cutting-edge writers produced at the Royal Court in the...

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