Bibliograph

Drama for students, presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied dramas, Jennifer Greve and Ira Mark Milne, project editors ; foreword by Carole L. Hamilton, Volume 24

Type

Label

Drama for students, presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied dramas, Jennifer Greve and Ira Mark Milne, project editors ; foreword by Carole L. Hamilton, Volume 24

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

photographsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Drama for students

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionariesbibliography

Oclc number

183425016

Responsibility statement

Jennifer Greve and Ira Mark Milne, project editors ; foreword by Carole L. Hamilton

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; understandable essays on play's construction; and excerpted critical commentary

Table Of Contents

Alison's house / Susan Glaspell -- Arden of Faversham / Anonymous -- The au pair man / Hugh Leonard -- Dirty blonde / Claudia Shear -- The exonerated / Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen -- The forc'd marriage / Aphra Behn -- Inadmissible evidence / John Osborne -- Indians / Arthur Kopit -- Indiscretions / Jean Cocteau -- A lesson from Aloes / Athol Fugard -- The prisoner of Second Avenue / Neil Simon -- Take me out / Richard Greenberg -- Two trains running / August Wilson -- Women of Trachis: Trachiniae / Sophocles

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