Norton Anthology of Drama

The most comprehensive and distinctive collection of its kind, The Norton Anthology of Drama will redefine the way dramatic literature is read and taught in the classroom. Offering the most generous collection of major plays (65 plays in all) the most carefully-prepared introductions, annotations, and play texts, an instructor's guide and accompanying website without peer, and a convenient two-volume, Norton-Anthology format for ease of reading and carrying, The Norton Anthology of Drama is also the best value, and the only anthology of drama that students will keep long after the class is over

Hallmarks of this Edition:

 

• Three MAJOR exclusives in the twentieth century:

   

  • Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
  • Eugene O'Neill, Long Day's Journey Into Night
  • Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

     

• Commissioned translations of major works

   

  • Sudraka's The Little Clay Cart, translated from Sanskrit by Sudipto Chatterjee (University of California, Berkeley).
  • Lope de Vega's Fuente Ovejuna and Pedro Calderon's Life is a Dream , both translated from Spanish by Gregary Racz (Long Island University).
  • Moliere's Tartuffe , translated from French by Virginia Scott and Constance Congdon. Conceived by Constance Congdon, this translation is a fresh and exciting new version of this classic play.
  • Alfred Jarry's King Ubu, translated from the French by the distinguished scholar and translator, David Ball (Emeritus, Smith College). This notoriously untranslatable text gets a new lease on life with Ball's ribald and riotous translation, exclusive to The Norton Anthology of Drama.

     

• A straightforward, chronological organization that is flexible and transparent.

   

• A distinctive and more reader-friendly format.

   

• Helpful Norton Anthology apparatus meets the needs of students while maintaining the highest editorial standards.

   

• The most helpful and extensive instructors' and students' resources available.

   

 

Norton Literature Online

W. W. Norton

Outstanding resources for students of literature. Norton Literature Online provides students with the most robust offering of literature resources on the Web, including an extensive glossary of literary terms, a valuable "Writing about Literature" section, MLA documentation guidelines, links to textbook-specific sites that include student review materials, and much more.

Student Website

W. W. Norton

This student website provides a rich array of multimedia resources and review materials, including summaries, quizzes, glossaries, illustrated plays in performance, excerpts from critical documents, and instruction on writing critically about drama.

Coursepacks

A free, fully customizable coursepack includes website resources and material from the instructor's guide.

Resource
Blackboard Coursepack  (download this file if your school is using Blackboard 6, 7, 8 or 9)
Blackboard CE 4 (formerly, WebCT CE 4) Coursepack
Blackboard CE 6 (formerly, WebCT CE 6) Coursepack
Blackboard Vista (formerly, WebCT Vista) Coursepack

Teaching with The Norton Anthology of Drama

Zander Brietzke (Author, Columbia University)

Teaching with The Norton Anthology of Drama provides all the in-depth teaching advice instructors need. For each play in the anthology, the guide offers topics for lecture or discussion, a list of readily available media for in-class viewing, a short summary of a play's production highlights, and suggestions for in-class projects and student-writing assignments.

Resource
Teaching with The Norton Anthology of Drama, Paperback
Teaching with The Norton Anthology of Drama, PDF

Lecture PowerPoints

PowerPoint lecture outlines on the introductory material are available for classroom use.

Resource
General Introduction
Volume 1
Volume 2

Website PowerPoints

Selected art from wwnorton.com/drama is available for classroom use.

Resource
Art PPTs from Plays in Performance essays, Vol. 1
Art PPTs from Plays in Performance essays, Vol. 2

Quizzes

All website quizzes are available for classroom use.

Resource
Web Quizzes

Instructor's Resource Disc

W. W. Norton (Author)

This instructor's CD includes select art from the book, a brief lecture PowerPoint for every play in the anthology, PowerPoint lecture outlines on the introductory material, art from the website, "Plays in Performance" essays, and a PDF version of the Instructor's Manual.

Resource
Instructor's Resource Disc, CD-ROM

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