Drama for students. presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied dramas / Volume 25 :

Drama for students. presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied dramas / Volume 25 : Ira Mark Milne, project editor. - 1 online resource (xix, 350 pages) : illustrations, photographs. - Gale eBooks .

"ISSN 1094-9232."

Includes bibliographies and index.

The American dream / Edward Albee -- The dumb waiter / Harold Pinter -- An enemy of the people / Henrik Ibsen -- Fabulation; or, the re-education of Undine / Lynn Nottage -- Fefu and her friends / Maria Irene Fornes -- The firebugs / Max Frisch -- Frozen / Bryony Lavery -- Hippolytus / Euripides -- Into the woods / Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine -- Rhinoceros / Eugene Ionesco -- The second shepherds' play / Anonymous -- Serious money / Caryl Churchill -- Stanley / Pam Gems.

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.



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Albee, Edward, 1928- American dream.
Pinter, Harold, 1930-2008. Dumb waiter.
Ibsen, Henrik, 1828-1906. English. Folkefiende.
Nottage, Lynn. Fabulation.
Fornes, Maria Irene. Fefu and her friends.
Frisch, Max, 1911-1991. Firebugs.
Lavery, Bryony. Frozen.
Euripides. Hippolytus.
Sondheim, Stephen. Into the woods.
Lapine, James. Into the woods.
Ionesco, Eugene. Rhinoceros.
Churchill, Caryl. Serious money.
Gems, Pam. Stanley.


Second shepherds' play.


Drama--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States.
Drama--Study and teaching (Secondary)--United States.
Drama--20th century.
Drama--21st century.
American drama--20th century.
American drama--21st century.

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