Drama for students. presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied dramas / Volume 4 : David Galens, editor. - 1 online resource (xix, 392 pages) : illustrations - Gale eBooks .

"ISSN 1094-9232."

Includes bibliographies and index.

The alchemist / Ben Jonson -- The bald soprano / Eugene Ionesco -- Burn this / Lanford Wilson -- Children of a lesser god / Mark Medoff / Death and the maiden / Ariel Dorfman -- Electra / Sophocles -- The hairy ape / Eugene O'Neill -- The house of Bernarda Alba / Federic Garcia Lorca -- The importance of being Earnest / Oscar Wilde -- Iphigenia in Taurus / Euripides -- I, too, speak of the rose / Emilio Carballido -- Look back in anger / John Osborne -- Miss Julie / August Strindberg -- Murder in the cathedral / T.S. Eliot -- Plenty / David Hare -- School for scandal / Richard Brinsley Sheridan -- Six characters in search of an author / Luigi Pirandello -- The skin of our teeth / Thornton Wilder -- The threepenny opera / Bertolt Brecht.

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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Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637. Alchemist.
Ionesco, Eug�ene. English. Cantatrice chauve.
Wilson, Lanford, 1937-2011. Burn this.
Medoff, Mark Howard. Children of a lesser god.
Dorfman, Ariel. English. Muerte y la doncella.
Sophocles. Electra.
O'Neill, Eugene, 1888-1953. Hairy ape.
Garc�ia Lorca, Federico, 1898-1936. English. Casa de Bernarda Alba.
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900. Importance of being earnest.
Euripides. English. Iphigenia in Tauris.
Carballido, Emilio. I, too, speak of the rose.
Osborne, John, 1929-1994. Look back in anger.
Strindberg, August, 1849-1912. English. Fr�oken Julie.
Eliot, T. S. 1888-1965. Murder in the cathedral.
Hare, David, 1947- Plenty.
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816. School for scandal.
Pirandello, Luigi, 1867-1936. English. Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore.
Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975. Skin of our teeth.
Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956. English. Dreigroschenoper.


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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