Bibliograph

Drama for students, presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied dramas, David Galens, editor, Volume 4

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Label

Drama for students, presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied dramas, David Galens, editor, Volume 4

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

bibliographydictionaries

Oclc number

262539190

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 alchemist / Ben Jonson -- The bald soprano / Eugene Ionesco -- Burn this / Lanford Wilson -- Children of a lesser god / Mark Medoff / Death and the maiden / Ariel Dorfman -- Electra / Sophocles -- The hairy ape / Eugene O'Neill -- The house of Bernarda Alba / Federic Garcia Lorca -- The importance of being Earnest / Oscar Wilde -- Iphigenia in Taurus / Euripides -- I, too, speak of the rose / Emilio Carballido -- Look back in anger / John Osborne -- Miss Julie / August Strindberg -- Murder in the cathedral / T.S. Eliot -- Plenty / David Hare -- School for scandal / Richard Brinsley Sheridan -- Six characters in search of an author / Luigi Pirandello -- The skin of our teeth / Thornton Wilder -- The threepenny opera / Bertolt Brecht

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