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Drama for students. Volume 4 : 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, 392 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781414428321
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version --: LOC classification:
  • PN1601
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Contents:
The alchemist / Ben Jonson -- The bald soprano / Eugene Ionesco -- Burn this / Lanford Wilson -- Children of a lesser god / Mark Medoff / Death and the maiden / Ariel Dorfman -- Electra / Sophocles -- The hairy ape / Eugene O'Neill -- The house of Bernarda Alba / Federic Garcia Lorca -- The importance of being Earnest / Oscar Wilde -- Iphigenia in Taurus / Euripides -- I, too, speak of the rose / Emilio Carballido -- Look back in anger / John Osborne -- Miss Julie / August Strindberg -- Murder in the cathedral / T.S. Eliot -- Plenty / David Hare -- School for scandal / Richard Brinsley Sheridan -- Six characters in search of an author / Luigi Pirandello -- The skin of our teeth / Thornton Wilder -- The threepenny opera / Bertolt Brecht.
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.

The alchemist / Ben Jonson -- The bald soprano / Eugene Ionesco -- Burn this / Lanford Wilson -- Children of a lesser god / Mark Medoff / Death and the maiden / Ariel Dorfman -- Electra / Sophocles -- The hairy ape / Eugene O'Neill -- The house of Bernarda Alba / Federic Garcia Lorca -- The importance of being Earnest / Oscar Wilde -- Iphigenia in Taurus / Euripides -- I, too, speak of the rose / Emilio Carballido -- Look back in anger / John Osborne -- Miss Julie / August Strindberg -- Murder in the cathedral / T.S. Eliot -- Plenty / David Hare -- School for scandal / Richard Brinsley Sheridan -- Six characters in search of an author / Luigi Pirandello -- The skin of our teeth / Thornton Wilder -- The threepenny opera / Bertolt Brecht.

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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