Drama: A Pocket Anthology

by R.S. Gwynn

This volume presents works ranging from Sophocles's Oedipus to Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun. A comprehensive introduction offers insights into the history of drama and its elements - such as plot, characterization and theme - while contextual headnotes provide a backdrop for each play in the text.

Genres: Plays, Anthologies, Drama

528 pages, Paperback

First published July 17, 2004

About the author

R.S. Gwynn, known as a "new formalist" poet, received a BA from Davidson College, where he twice won the Vereen Bell Award for Creative Writing, and he earned both an MA and an MFA from the University of Arkansas, where he won the John Gould Fletcher Award for Poetry. Gwynn has also won the Michael Braude Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

He is the author of several collections of poetry, including No Word of Farewell: Selected Poems 1970–2000; The Narcissiad (1982), a book-length satirical poem; and The Drive-In (1986), winner of the Breakthrough Award from the University of Missouri Press. Gwynn has taught at Lamar University since 1976. He lives in Beaumont, Texas.