Drama for students. presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied dramas / Volume 10 :
Michael L. LaBlanc, editor.
- 1 online resource (xxi, 424 pages) : illustrations
- Gale eBooks .
"ISSN 1094-9232."
Includes bibliographies and index.
The balcony / Jean Genet -- Blood wedding / Federico Garc�a Lorca -- Death and the king's horseman / Wole Soyinka -- The Kentucky cycle / Robert Schenkkan -- Lysistrata / Aristophanes -- The memorandum / Vaclav Havel -- Once in a lifetime / George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart -- Ring around the moon / Jean Anouilh -- Seven against Thebes / Aeschylus -- Sizwe Bansi is dead / Athol Fugard -- The three sisters / Anton Chekhov -- Tiny Alice / Edward Albee -- Volpone / Ben(jamin) Jonson -- The wild duck / Henrik Ibsen.
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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Genet, Jean, 1910-1986. English. Balcon. Garc�ia Lorca, Federico, 1898-1936. English. Bodas de sangre. Soyinka, Wole. Death and the king's horseman. Schenkkan, Robert, 1953- Kentucky cycle. Aristophanes. Lysistrata. Havel, V�aclav. English. Vyrozumen�i. Kaufman, George S. 1889-1961. Once in a lifetime. Hart, Moss, 1904-1961. Once in a lifetime. Anouilh, Jean, 1910-1987. English. Invitation au ch�ateau. Aeschylus. Seven against Thebes. Fugard, Athol. Sizwe Bansi is dead. Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904. English. Tri sestry. Albee, Edward, 1928- Tiny Alice. Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637. Volpone. Ibsen, Henrik, 1828-1906. English. Vildanden.
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.