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Drama for students. Volume 1 : presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied dramas / David Galens, Lynn Spampinato, editors.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Gale eBooksPublisher: Detroit, Mich. : Gale, [(c)1998.]Description: 1 online resource (xix, 350 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781414428291
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version --: LOC classification:
  • PN1701
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
Antigone / Sophocles -- The cherry orchard / Anton Chekhov -- Cyrano De Bergerac / Edmond Rostand -- Death of a salesman / Arthur Miller -- Doctor Faustus / Christopher Marlowe -- A doll's house / Henrik Ibsen -- The glass menagerie / Tennessee Williams -- The king and I / Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, II -- The little foxes / Lillian Hellman -- Medea / Euripides -- Oedipus Rex / Sophocles -- Our town / Thornton Wilder --- Pygmalion / George Bernard Shaw -- She stoops to conquer / Oliver Goldsmith -- A streetcar named Desire / Tennessee Williams -- You can't take it with you / George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart.
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.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Antigone / Sophocles -- The cherry orchard / Anton Chekhov -- Cyrano De Bergerac / Edmond Rostand -- Death of a salesman / Arthur Miller -- Doctor Faustus / Christopher Marlowe -- A doll's house / Henrik Ibsen -- The glass menagerie / Tennessee Williams -- The king and I / Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, II -- The little foxes / Lillian Hellman -- Medea / Euripides -- Oedipus Rex / Sophocles -- Our town / Thornton Wilder --- Pygmalion / George Bernard Shaw -- She stoops to conquer / Oliver Goldsmith -- A streetcar named Desire / Tennessee Williams -- You can't take it with you / George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart.

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.

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