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.

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