Drama for students. presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied dramas / Volume 9 : Ira Mark Milne, editor. - 1 online resource (xxi, 403 pages) : illustrations - Gale eBooks .

"ISSN 1094-9232."

Includes bibliographies and index.

Antigone / Jean Anouilh -- The chairs / Eugene Ionesco -- The elephant man / Bernard Pomerance -- The front page / Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur -- Funnyhouse of a negro / Adrienne Kennedy -- The ghost sonata / August Strindberg -- The good person of Szechwan / Bertolt Brecht -- Hot L Baltimore / Lanford Wilson -- Lady Windermere's fan / Oscar Wilde -- The lower depths / Maxim Gorki -- Mourning becomes Electra / Eugene O'Neill -- The Philadelphia story / Philip Barry -- Right you are, if you think you are / Luigi Pirandello -- Serjeant Musgrave's dance / John Arden.

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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Anouilh, Jean, 1910-1987. Antigone.
Ionesco, Eug�ene. English. Chaises.
Pomerance, Bernard. Elephant man.
Hecht, Ben, 1893-1964. Front page.
MacArthur, Charles, 1895-1956. Front page.
Kennedy, Adrienne. Funnyhouse of a negro.
Strindberg, August, 1849-1912. English. Sp�oksonaten.
Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956. English. Gute Mensch von Sezuan.
Wilson, Lanford, 1937-2011. Hot L Baltimore.
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900. Lady Windermere's fan.
Gorky, Maksim, 1868-1936. English. Na dne.
O'Neill, Eugene, 1888-1953. Mourning becomes Electra.
Barry, Philip, 1896-1949. Philadelphia story.
Pirandello, Luigi, 1867-1936. English. Cos�i �e (se vi pare).
Arden, John. Serjeant Musgrave's dance.


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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