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Drama for students. Volume 2 : 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, 356 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781414428307
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version --: LOC classification:
  • PN1601
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Contents:
Crimes of the heart / Beth Henley -- for colored girls who have considered suicide-when the rainbow is enuf / Ntozake Shange -- Glengarry Glen Ross / David Mamet -- Inherit the wind / Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee -- Long day's journey into night / Eugene O'Neill -- A man for all seasons / Robert Bolt -- The miracle worker / William Gibson -- The mousetrap / Agatha Christie -- 'Night, Mother / Marsha Norman -- The odd couple / Neil Simon -- A raisin in the sun / Lorraine Hansberry -- The rez sisters / Tomson Highway -- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead / Tom Stoppard -- Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 / Anna Deavere Smith -- Visit to a small planet / Gore Vidal -- Waiting for Godot / Samuel Beckett -- Wedding band / Alice Childress -- The zoo story / Edward Albee.
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.

Crimes of the heart / Beth Henley -- for colored girls who have considered suicide-when the rainbow is enuf / Ntozake Shange -- Glengarry Glen Ross / David Mamet -- Inherit the wind / Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee -- Long day's journey into night / Eugene O'Neill -- A man for all seasons / Robert Bolt -- The miracle worker / William Gibson -- The mousetrap / Agatha Christie -- 'Night, Mother / Marsha Norman -- The odd couple / Neil Simon -- A raisin in the sun / Lorraine Hansberry -- The rez sisters / Tomson Highway -- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead / Tom Stoppard -- Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 / Anna Deavere Smith -- Visit to a small planet / Gore Vidal -- Waiting for Godot / Samuel Beckett -- Wedding band / Alice Childress -- The zoo story / Edward Albee.

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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