Drama for students. presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied dramas / Volume 24 :
Drama for students. presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied dramas / Volume 24 :
Jennifer Greve and Ira Mark Milne, project editors ; foreword by Carole L. Hamilton.
- 1 online resource (xix, 362 pages) : illustrations, photographs.
- Gale eBooks .
"ISSN 1094-9232."
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
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.
9781414410371
Glaspell, Susan, 1876-1948. Alison's house.
Leonard, Hugh. Au pair man.
Shear, Claudia. Dirty blonde.
Jensen, Erik, 1970- Exonerated.
Blank, Jessica, 1975- Exonerated.
Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689. Forc'd marriage.
Osborne, John, 1929-1994. Inadmissible evidence.
Kopit, Arthur L. Indians.
Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963. Indiscretions.
Fugard, Athol. Lesson from Aloes.
Simon, Neil. Prisoner of Second Avenue.
Greenberg, Richard, 1958- Take me out.
Wilson, August. Two trains running.
Sophocles. English. Trachiniae.
Arden of Feversham.
Drama--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States.
Drama--Study and teaching (Secondary)--United States.
Drama--20th century.
American drama--20th century.
PN1701
"ISSN 1094-9232."
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
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.
9781414410371
Glaspell, Susan, 1876-1948. Alison's house.
Leonard, Hugh. Au pair man.
Shear, Claudia. Dirty blonde.
Jensen, Erik, 1970- Exonerated.
Blank, Jessica, 1975- Exonerated.
Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689. Forc'd marriage.
Osborne, John, 1929-1994. Inadmissible evidence.
Kopit, Arthur L. Indians.
Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963. Indiscretions.
Fugard, Athol. Lesson from Aloes.
Simon, Neil. Prisoner of Second Avenue.
Greenberg, Richard, 1958- Take me out.
Wilson, August. Two trains running.
Sophocles. English. Trachiniae.
Arden of Feversham.
Drama--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States.
Drama--Study and teaching (Secondary)--United States.
Drama--20th century.
American drama--20th century.
PN1701