| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 392 pages) : illustrations |
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Gale eBooks
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| Note |
"ISSN 1094-9232." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| 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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Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637. Alchemist.
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Ionesco, Eugène. Cantatrice chauve. English.
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Wilson, Lanford, 1937-2011. Burn this.
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Medoff, Mark Howard. Children of a lesser god.
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Dorfman, Ariel. Muerte y la doncella. English.
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Sophocles. Electra.
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O'Neill, Eugene, 1888-1953. Hairy ape.
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García Lorca, Federico, 1898-1936. Casa de Bernarda Alba. English.
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Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900. Importance of being earnest.
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Euripides. Iphigenia in Tauris. English.
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Carballido, Emilio. I, too, speak of the rose.
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Osborne, John, 1929-1994. Look back in anger.
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Strindberg, August, 1849-1912. Fröken Julie. English.
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Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965. Murder in the cathedral.
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Hare, David, 1947- Plenty.
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Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816. School for scandal.
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Pirandello, Luigi, 1867-1936. Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore. English.
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Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975. Skin of our teeth.
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Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956. Dreigroschenoper. 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 |
Galens, David, editor.
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Gale Group.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Drama for students, Volume 4. Detroit, Mich. : Gale, 1998 9780787627539 |
| ISBN |
9781414428321 (electronic book) |
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1414428324 (electronic book) |
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9780787627539 |
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0787627534 |
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