Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 424 pages) : illustrations |
Series |
Gale eBooks
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Note |
"ISSN 1094-9232." |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
The balcony / Jean Genet -- Blood wedding / Federico Garc̕a Lorca -- Death and the king's horseman / Wole Soyinka -- The Kentucky cycle / Robert Schenkkan -- Lysistrata / Aristophanes -- The memorandum / Vaclav Havel -- Once in a lifetime / George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart -- Ring around the moon / Jean Anouilh -- Seven against Thebes / Aeschylus -- Sizwe Bansi is dead / Athol Fugard -- The three sisters / Anton Chekhov -- Tiny Alice / Edward Albee -- Volpone / Ben(jamin) Jonson -- The wild duck / Henrik Ibsen. |
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. |
Subject |
Genet, Jean, 1910-1986. Balcon. English.
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García Lorca, Federico, 1898-1936. Bodas de sangre. English.
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Soyinka, Wole. Death and the king's horseman.
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Schenkkan, Robert, 1953- Kentucky cycle.
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Aristophanes. Lysistrata.
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Havel, Václav. Vyrozumení. English.
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Kaufman, George S. (George Simon), 1889-1961. Once in a lifetime.
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Hart, Moss, 1904-1961. Once in a lifetime.
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Anouilh, Jean, 1910-1987. Invitation au château. English.
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Aeschylus. Seven against Thebes.
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Fugard, Athol. Sizwe Bansi is dead.
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Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904. Tri sestry. English.
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Albee, Edward, 1928- Tiny Alice.
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Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637. Volpone.
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Ibsen, Henrik, 1828-1906. Vildanden. English.
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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 |
LaBlanc, Michael L., editor.
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Gale Group.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Drama for students, Volume 10. Detroit, Mich. : Gale, 2001 9780787640842 |
ISBN |
9781414428383 (electronic book) |
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1414428383 (electronic book) |
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9780787640842 |
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0787640840 |
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