Drama for students. :, presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied dramas /, David Galens, editor, Volume 16
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Drama for students. :, presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied dramas /, David Galens, editor, Volume 16
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Drama for students. :
Nature of contents
dictionariesbibliography
Oclc number
262557793
Responsibility statement
David Galens, editor
Series statement
Gale eBooks
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 baptism / Amiri Baraka -- The barber of Seville / Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais -- Beyond the horizon / Eugene O'Neill -- Both your houses / Maxwell Anderson -- Brand / Henrik Ibsen -- Cloud nine / Caryl Churchill -- Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth / Tom Stoppard -- Flyin' West / Pearl Cleage -- Master class / Terrence McNally -- The matchmaker / Thornton Wilder -- The mound builders / Lanford Wilson -- The night Thoreau spent in jail / Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee -- The rover / Aphra Behn -- The secret rapture / David Hare
Classification
Contributor
Subject
- Baraka, Amiri, 1934-2014
- Lee, Robert Edwin, 1918-1994
- McNally, Terrence
- Drama + Study and teaching (Secondary) -- United States
- Wilson, Lanford, 1937-2011
- Drama + Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States
- O'Neill, Eugene, 1888-1953
- Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de, 1732-1799
- Drama
- Stoppard, Tom
- Ibsen, Henrik, 1828-1906
- Anderson, Maxwell, 1888-1959
- Theater -- Reviews
- Churchill, Caryl
- Theater -- Biography
- Dramatic criticism
- Cleage, Pearl
- Hare, David, 1947-
- Lawrence, Jerome, 1915-2004
- Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689
- American drama
- Drama + History and criticism
- Dramatists
- Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975
- Drama -- Stories, plots, etc
Editor
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- Classification1
- Contributor2
- Subject25
- Baraka, Amiri, 1934-2014
- Lee, Robert Edwin, 1918-1994
- McNally, Terrence
- Drama + Study and teaching (Secondary) -- United States
- Wilson, Lanford, 1937-2011
- Drama + Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States
- O'Neill, Eugene, 1888-1953
- Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de, 1732-1799
- Drama
- Stoppard, Tom
- Ibsen, Henrik, 1828-1906
- Anderson, Maxwell, 1888-1959
- Theater -- Reviews
- Churchill, Caryl
- Theater -- Biography
- Dramatic criticism
- Cleage, Pearl
- Hare, David, 1947-
- Lawrence, Jerome, 1915-2004
- Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689
- American drama
- Drama + History and criticism
- Dramatists
- Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975
- Drama -- Stories, plots, etc
- Editor1
- Other version1
- Mapped to1