Drama for students. presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied dramas / Volume 25 :
Ira Mark Milne, project editor.
- 1 online resource (xix, 350 pages) : illustrations, photographs.
- Gale eBooks .
"ISSN 1094-9232."
Includes bibliographies and index.
The American dream / Edward Albee -- The dumb waiter / Harold Pinter -- An enemy of the people / Henrik Ibsen -- Fabulation; or, the re-education of Undine / Lynn Nottage -- Fefu and her friends / Maria Irene Fornes -- The firebugs / Max Frisch -- Frozen / Bryony Lavery -- Hippolytus / Euripides -- Into the woods / Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine -- Rhinoceros / Eugene Ionesco -- The second shepherds' play / Anonymous -- Serious money / Caryl Churchill -- Stanley / Pam Gems.
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; understandable essays on play's construction; and excerpted critical commentary.
9781414438023
Albee, Edward, 1928- American dream. Pinter, Harold, 1930-2008. Dumb waiter. Ibsen, Henrik, 1828-1906. English. Folkefiende. Nottage, Lynn. Fabulation. Fornes, Maria Irene. Fefu and her friends. Frisch, Max, 1911-1991. Firebugs. Lavery, Bryony. Frozen. Euripides. Hippolytus. Sondheim, Stephen. Into the woods. Lapine, James. Into the woods. Ionesco, Eugene. Rhinoceros. Churchill, Caryl. Serious money. Gems, Pam. Stanley.
Second shepherds' play.
Drama--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States. Drama--Study and teaching (Secondary)--United States. Drama--20th century. Drama--21st century. American drama--20th century. American drama--21st century.