Drama for students. presenting analysis, context, and criticism on commonly studied dramas / Volume 37 : Kristen A. Dorsch, project editor ; foreword by Carole L. Hamilton. - 1 online resource (xix, 319 pages) : illustrations (some color), portraits - Gale eBooks .

"ISSN 1094-9232."

Includes bibliographies and index.

Death of a salesman / by Arthur Miller -- A doll's house / by Henrik Ibsen -- For colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf / by Ntozake Shange -- The mousetrap / by Agatha Christie -- 'Night, mother / by Marsha Norman -- Oedipus Rex / by Sophocles -- A raisin in the sun / by Lorraine Hansberry -- The seagull -- A streetcar named Desire / by Tennessee Williams -- Twilight : Los Angeles, 1992 / by Anna Deavere Smith -- Waiting for Godot / by Samuel Beckett -- West Side story.

Provides critical overviews of the most-studied plays of all time periods, nations, and cultures. Includes discussions of themes, characters, critical reception, dramatic devices and traditions as well as cultural and historical context.



9780028666839


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.

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