| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 403 pages) : illustrations |
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Gale eBooks
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| Note |
"ISSN 1094-9232." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| 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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Anouilh, Jean, 1910-1987. Antigone.
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Ionesco, Eugène. Chaises. English.
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Pomerance, Bernard. Elephant man.
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Hecht, Ben, 1893-1964. Front page.
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MacArthur, Charles, 1895-1956. Front page.
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Kennedy, Adrienne. Funnyhouse of a negro.
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Strindberg, August, 1849-1912. Spöksonaten. English.
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Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956. Gute Mensch von Sezuan. English.
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Wilson, Lanford, 1937-2011. Hot L Baltimore.
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Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900. Lady Windermere's fan.
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Gorky, Maksim, 1868-1936. Na dne. English.
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O'Neill, Eugene, 1888-1953. Mourning becomes Electra.
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Barry, Philip, 1896-1949. Philadelphia story.
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Pirandello, Luigi, 1867-1936. Così è (se vi pare). English.
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Arden, John. Serjeant Musgrave's dance.
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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 |
Milne, Ira Mark, editor.
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Gale Group.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Drama for students, Volume 9. Detroit, Mich. : Gale, 2000 9780787640835 |
| ISBN |
9781414428376 (electronic book) |
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1414428375 (electronic book) |
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9780787640835 |
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0787640832 |
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