Bibliograph

Drama for students, presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied dramas, Jennifer Smith, editor, Volume 14

Type

Label

Drama for students, presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied dramas, Jennifer Smith, editor, Volume 14

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

262558235

Responsibility statement

Jennifer Smith, 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 advertisement / Natalia Ginzburg -- Blues for an Alabama sky / Pearl Cleage -- The boys in the band / Mart Crowley -- The critic / Richard Brinsley Sheridan -- Curse of the starving class / Sam Shepard -- A delicate balance / Edward Albee -- How I learned to drive / Paula Vogel -- Love for love / William Congreve -- The man who turned into a stick / Kobo Abe -- The marriage of Figaro / Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais -- Men in white / Sidney Kingsley -- Mountain language / Harold Pinter -- Watch on the Rhine / Lillian Hellman -- Wine in the wilderness / Alice Childress -- Y2K / Arthur Kopit

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