Research Catalog
Drama for students. presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied dramas
- Title
- Drama for students. Volume 1 [electronic resource] : presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied dramas / David Galens, Lynn Spampinato, editors.
- Publication
- Detroit, Mich. : Gale, 1998.
Details
- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource.
- 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.
- Uniform Title
- Drama for students. Volume 1 (Online)
- Subject
- Sophocles
- Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904
- Rostand, Edmond, 1868-1918
- Miller, Arthur, 1915-2005
- Marlowe, Christopher, 1564-1593
- Ibsen, Henrik, 1828-1906
- Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983
- Rodgers, Richard, 1902-1979
- Hammerstein, Oscar, II, 1895-1960
- Hellman, Lillian, 1905-1984
- Euripides
- Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975
- Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950
- Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774
- Kaufman, George S. 1889-1961
- Theater > Biography
- Theater > Reviews
- Dramatic criticism
- Drama > History and criticism
- Drama > Study and teaching (Higher) > United States
- Drama > Study and teaching (Secondary) > United States
- Drama
- Drama > Stories, plots, etc
- American drama
- Dramatists
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Antigone - Sophocles -- The cherry orchard - Anton Chekhov -- Cyrano De Bergerac - Edmond Rostand -- Death of a salesman - Arthur Miller -- Doctor Faustus - Christopher Marlowe -- A doll's house - Henrik Ibsen -- The glass menagerie - Tennessee Williams -- The king and I - Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, II -- The little foxes - Lillian Hellman -- Medea - Euripides -- Oedipus Rex - Sophocles -- Our town - Thornton Wilder --- Pygmalion - George Bernard Shaw -- She stoops to conquer - Oliver Goldsmith -- A streetcar named Desire - Tennessee Williams -- You can't take it with you - George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart.
- OCLC
- ssj0000514475
- Title
- Drama for students. Volume 1 [electronic resource] : presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied dramas / David Galens, Lynn Spampinato, editors.
- Imprint
- Detroit, Mich. : Gale, 1998.
- Access
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Original Version
- Original: xix, 350 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Galens, David.Spampinato, Lynn.