Bibliograph

Drama for students, presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied dramas, David Galens, editor, Volume 6

Type

Label

Drama for students, presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied dramas, David Galens, editor, Volume 6

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Drama for students

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionariesbibliography

Oclc number

262544735

Responsibility statement

David Galens, editor

Series statement

Gale virtual reference library

Sub title

presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied dramas

Summary

Features analysis of the plays most frequently studied in literature classes. Entries include: introduction providing overview of play; brief biography of playwright; plot summary; discussion of play's principal themes; essays on play's construction; and excerpted critical commentary

Table Of Contents

The bacchae / Euripides -- Boesman & Lena / Athol Fugard -- Brighton Beach memoirs / Neil Simon -- Buried child / Sam Shepard -- The emperor Jones / Eugene O'Neill -- Hay fever / Noel Coward -- Hedda Gabler / Henrik Ibsen -- Man and superman / George Bernard Shaw -- A month in the country / Ivan Turgenev -- Mule bone / Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes -- The ruling class / Peter Barnes -- Speed-the-plow / David Mamet -- Torch song trilogy / Harvey Fierstein -- What the butler saw / Joe Orton

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