Customer Reviews

The Compact Bedford Introduction to Drama

5 star:		(3)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

It's great for a textbook! It came in great condition. What I have read in the book is written for every student not just students that are studying the arts.

Its very nice to carry around a smaller textbook for once that also contains many plays to read!

An incisive well-written work alive with the intellectual excitement of theater history. Essential reading for students, playwrights,performers and laymen. A living textbook celebrating the eternal triumphs of the human spirit that are our classic plays. Lee Jacobus enables readers to understand and appreciate what we must never take for granted. Human creativity.

I had this book in my basement. Then the rain came and flooded my basement, so I needed a new one, and I book I originally paid $75.00 for was just $13.00 including shipping, which was really quick. This seller is reliable. =)

I got this book for a theater class. The content is great, but it's so similar to another book "Introduction to drama" that I mistook it for my class requirement.
BTW, the book is pretty huge and the pages tear easily. Other than that, it's ok

I had to buy this book as part of a college course curriculum.

It basically is filled with a bunch of plays written in various time periods around the world. It is arranged chronologically so there is a good amount of background information in the book on the different time periods.

In each 'chapter' or section of the book there is a brief introduction about the time period in which the plays were written. Then, for each play there is a short section before and after the play which gives prelude and summary which can help you further understand some of the more complicated plays. There are reviews by famous authors and playwrights as well following each play.

The reason I give this book only 3 stars is because there were many segments of the book which were very difficult to read and follow. I found myself many times going back over a particular section and reading it four and five times to make sense of it (mostly in the summaries and reviews - the plays were in original format and I had already read most of them at some point in my grammar school years). Now, I am a very intelligent person so if I find a section of reading difficult, the average reader will find it extremely difficult. Plus, I am not a major fan of literary arts which I'm sure contributes highly to this.