Drama for students. Volume 24 [electronic resource] : presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied dramas / Jennifer Greve and Ira Mark Milne, project editors ; foreword by Carole L. Hamilton.

Contributor(s): Series: Gale virtual reference libraryPublication details: Detroit, Mich. : Gale, c2007.Description: 1 online resource (xix, 362 p.) : ill., photosISBN:
  • 9781414410371 (electronic book)
  • 1414410379 (electronic book)
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Drama for students, Volume 24.DDC classification:
  • 23
LOC classification:
  • PN1701
Online resources:
Contents:
Alison's house / Susan Glaspell -- Arden of Faversham / Anonymous -- The au pair man / Hugh Leonard -- Dirty blonde / Claudia Shear -- The exonerated / Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen -- The forc'd marriage / Aphra Behn -- Inadmissible evidence / John Osborne -- Indians / Arthur Kopit -- Indiscretions / Jean Cocteau -- A lesson from Aloes / Athol Fugard -- The prisoner of Second Avenue / Neil Simon -- Take me out / Richard Greenberg -- Two trains running / August Wilson -- Women of Trachis: Trachiniae / Sophocles.
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; understandable essays on play's construction; and excerpted critical commentary.
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"ISSN 1094-9232."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Alison's house / Susan Glaspell -- Arden of Faversham / Anonymous -- The au pair man / Hugh Leonard -- Dirty blonde / Claudia Shear -- The exonerated / Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen -- The forc'd marriage / Aphra Behn -- Inadmissible evidence / John Osborne -- Indians / Arthur Kopit -- Indiscretions / Jean Cocteau -- A lesson from Aloes / Athol Fugard -- The prisoner of Second Avenue / Neil Simon -- Take me out / Richard Greenberg -- Two trains running / August Wilson -- Women of Trachis: Trachiniae / Sophocles.

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; understandable essays on play's construction; and excerpted critical commentary.

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