| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 407 pages) : illustrations |
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Gale eBooks
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| Note |
"ISSN 1094-9232." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
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.
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Cleage, Pearl. Blues for an Alabama sky.
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Crowley, Mart, 1935- Boys in the band.
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Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816. Critic.
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Shepard, Sam, 1943- Curse of the starving class.
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Albee, Edward, 1928- Delicate balance.
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Vogel, Paula. How I learned to drive.
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Congreve, William, 1670-1729. Love for love.
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Abe, Kōbō, 1924-1993. Bō ni natta otoko. English.
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Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de, 1732-1799. Mariage de Figaro. English.
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Kingsley, Sidney, 1906-1995. Men in white.
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Pinter, Harold, 1930-2008. Mountain language.
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Hellman, Lillian, 1905-1984. Watch on the Rhine.
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Childress, Alice. Wine in the wilderness.
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Kopit, Arthur L. Y2K.
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Theater -- Biography.
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Theater -- Reviews.
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Dramatic criticism.
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Drama -- History and criticism.
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Drama -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States.
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Drama -- Study and teaching (Secondary) -- United States.
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Drama.
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Drama -- Stories, plots, etc.
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American drama.
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Dramatists.
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| Added Author |
Smith, Jennifer, editor.
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Gale Group.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Drama for students, Volume 14. Detroit, Mich. : Gale, 2002 9780787640880 |
| ISBN |
9781414428420 (electronic book) |
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1414428421 (electronic book) |
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9780787640880 |
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0787640883 |
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