Bibliograph

Drama for students, presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied dramas, Michael L. LaBlanc, editor, Volume 10

Type

Label

Drama for students, presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied dramas, Michael L. LaBlanc, editor, Volume 10

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

262556524

Responsibility statement

Michael L. LaBlanc, 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 balcony / Jean Genet -- Blood wedding / Federico Garca̕ Lorca -- Death and the king's horseman / Wole Soyinka -- The Kentucky cycle / Robert Schenkkan -- Lysistrata / Aristophanes -- The memorandum / Vaclav Havel -- Once in a lifetime / George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart -- Ring around the moon / Jean Anouilh -- Seven against Thebes / Aeschylus -- Sizwe Bansi is dead / Athol Fugard -- The three sisters / Anton Chekhov -- Tiny Alice / Edward Albee -- Volpone / Ben(jamin) Jonson -- The wild duck / Henrik Ibsen

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