Drama for students. presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied dramas / Volume 14 : Jennifer Smith, editor. - 1 online resource (xxii, 407 pages) : illustrations - Gale eBooks .

"ISSN 1094-9232."

Includes bibliographies and index.

The advertisement / Natalia Ginzburg -- Blues for an Alabama sky / Pearl Cleage -- The boys in the band / Mart Crowley -- The critic / Richard Brinsley Sheridan -- Curse of the starving class / Sam Shepard -- A delicate balance / Edward Albee -- How I learned to drive / Paula Vogel -- Love for love / William Congreve -- The man who turned into a stick / Kobo Abe -- The marriage of Figaro / Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais -- Men in white / Sidney Kingsley -- Mountain language / Harold Pinter -- Watch on the Rhine / Lillian Hellman -- Wine in the wilderness / Alice Childress -- Y2K / Arthur Kopit.

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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Ginzburg, Natalia. Advertisement.
Cleage, Pearl. Blues for an Alabama sky.
Crowley, Mart, 1935- Boys in the band.
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816. Critic.
Shepard, Sam, 1943- Curse of the starving class.
Albee, Edward, 1928- Delicate balance.
Vogel, Paula. How I learned to drive.
Congreve, William, 1670-1729. Love for love.
Abe, K�ob�o, 1924-1993. English. B�o ni natta otoko.
Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de, 1732-1799. English. Mariage de Figaro.
Kingsley, Sidney, 1906-1995. Men in white.
Pinter, Harold, 1930-2008. Mountain language.
Hellman, Lillian, 1905-1984. Watch on the Rhine.
Childress, Alice. Wine in the wilderness.
Kopit, Arthur L. Y2K.


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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