20TH C. Anthologies

[Melanie Stevenson]

Dear list members,

I'm putting together a third-year, full year, undergraduate, modern
dramatic literature course for an English department for next year and I
would appreciate the benefit of your experiences in finding appropriate,
affordable texts.

Because the cost to students of buying 20-odd plays in individual
editions is prohibitive, I've been trying to find a good modern
drama anthology that could form the base of the course (supplementing it,
of course, with a few, less-often anthologized texts). I've found some
useful _general_ drama anthologies that I've used to teach drama surveys
(Greeks to Churchill type things), but so far I've been unable to
find a really good anthology focusing on modern drama. The closest I've
come are _Six Great Modern Plays_ and the more comprehensive _Drama in the
Modern World_. Unfortunately, this latter anthology duplicates most of the
plays taught last year in the latter half of the second-year introductory
drama course, a prereq for the modern drama course.

Can anyone on the list recommend a good modern drama anthology? Does such
a beast exist? If it doesn't, does anyone have any other suggestions for
keeping the booklist affordable, etc.?

Many thanks,

Melanie Stevenson

Dr. M. Stevenson
Division of Humanities
University of Toronto at Scarborough
1265 Military Trail
Scarborough, ON
M1C 1A4