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Principles. Theater and drama. Origins ; Appeals ; The conventions of the theater ; Elements of drama -- Tragedy. Aristotle and tragedy ; The creation of tragedy ; Significance of content ; Melodrama ; Drama -- Comedy. The nature of comedy ; The comic attitude ; Sources of laughter ; Plot ; Comic devices ; Character ; Thought ; Comedy in performance ; Farce. Plays. : Antigone / : Hamlet / : Miser / : School for scandal / : Enemy of the people / : Miss Julie / : Major Barbara / : Desire under the elms / : Caucasian chalk circle / : Glass menagerie / : Leader / : Act without words, I / Sophocles -- Shakespeare -- Molière -- Sheridan -- Ibsen, Miller -- Strindberg -- Shaw -- O'Neill -- Brecht -- Williams -- Ionesco -- Beckett.