Drama for students. presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied dramas / Volume 1 : David Galens, Lynn Spampinato, editors. - 1 online resource (xix, 350 pages) : illustrations - Gale eBooks .

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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Sophocles. Antigone.
Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904. Cherry orchard.
Rostand, Edmond, 1868-1918. Cyrano de Bergerac.
Miller, Arthur, 1915-2005. Death of a salesman.
Marlowe, Christopher, 1564-1593. Doctor Faustus.
Ibsen, Henrik, 1828-1906. Doll's house.
Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983. Glass menagerie.
Rodgers, Richard, 1902-1979. King and I.
Hammerstein, Oscar, 1895-1960. King and I.
Hellman, Lillian, 1905-1984. Little foxes.
Euripides. Medea.
Sophocles. Oedipus Rex.
Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975. Our town.
Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950. Pygmalion.
Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774. She stoops to conquer.
Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983. Streetcar named Desire.
Kaufman, George S. 1889-1961. You can't take it with you.
Hart, Moss, 1904-1961. You can't take it with you.


Theater--Biography.
Theater--Reviews.
Dramatic criticism.
Drama--History and criticism.
Drama--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States.
Drama--Study and teaching (Secondary)--United States.
Drama.
Drama--Stories, plots, etc.
American drama.
Dramatists.

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