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Drama for students. Volume 3 : presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied dramas / David Galens, editor.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Gale eBooksPublisher: Detroit, Mich. : Gale, [(c)1998.]Description: 1 online resource (xix, 427 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781414428314
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version --: LOC classification:
  • PN1701
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Contents:
American buffalo / David Mamet -- The basic training of Pavlo Hummel / David Rabe -- Blood relations / Sharon Pollock -- Cat on a hot tin roof / Tennessee Williams -- The children's hour / Lillian Hellman -- Come back, little Sheba / William Inge -- The crucible / Arthur Miller -- Dutchman / Amiri Baraka -- Entertaining Mr. Sloane / Joe Orton -- Fences / August Wilson -- The homecoming / Harold Pinter -- Lear / Edward Bond -- Major Barbara / George Bernard Shaw -- Marat/Sade / Peter Weiss -- "Master Harold"... and the boys / Athol Fugard -- Private lives / Noel Coward -- True West / Sam Shepard -- Waiting for lefty / Clifford Odets -- Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? / 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.

American buffalo / David Mamet -- The basic training of Pavlo Hummel / David Rabe -- Blood relations / Sharon Pollock -- Cat on a hot tin roof / Tennessee Williams -- The children's hour / Lillian Hellman -- Come back, little Sheba / William Inge -- The crucible / Arthur Miller -- Dutchman / Amiri Baraka -- Entertaining Mr. Sloane / Joe Orton -- Fences / August Wilson -- The homecoming / Harold Pinter -- Lear / Edward Bond -- Major Barbara / George Bernard Shaw -- Marat/Sade / Peter Weiss -- "Master Harold"... and the boys / Athol Fugard -- Private lives / Noel Coward -- True West / Sam Shepard -- Waiting for lefty / Clifford Odets -- Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? / 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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