- Additional Authors
- Galens, David.
- 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 4 (Online)
- Subject
- Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637
- Ionesco, Eug̈ne
- Wilson, Lanford, 1937-2011
- Medoff, Mark, 1940-2019
- Dorfman, Ariel
- Sophocles
- O'Neill, Eugene, 1888-1953
- Garc̕a Lorca, Federico, 1898-1936
- Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900
- Euripides
- Carballido, Emilio
- Osborne, John, 1929-1994
- Strindberg, August, 1849-1912
- Eliot, T. S. 1888-1965
- Hare, David, 1947-
- Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
- Pirandello, Luigi, 1867-1936
- Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975
- Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956
- 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
- Note
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- 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.
- OCLC
- ssj0000514478
- Title
Drama for students. Volume 4 [electronic resource] : presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied dramas / David Galens, editor.
- Imprint
Detroit, Mich. : Gale, 1998.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Original Version
Original: xix, 392 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
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- Added Author
Galens, David.