- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (xix, 353 p.) : ill., photos.
- Summary
- Provides critical overviews of the most-studied plays of all time periods, nations, and cultures. Includes discussions of themes, characters, critical reception, dramatic devices and traditions as well as cultural and historical context.
- Series Statement
- Gale virtual reference library
- Uniform Title
- Drama for students. Volume 22 (Online)
- Subject
- Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950
- Cowley, Hannah, 1743-1809
- Artaud, Antonin, 1896-1948
- Middleton, Thomas, -1627
- Rowley, William, 1585?-1642?
- Frayn, Michael
- Smith, Anna Deavere
- Maugham, W. Somerset 1874-1965
- Thompson, Judith, 1954-
- Rudnick, Paul
- Ephron, Nora
- Kaufman, Moises
- Treadwell, Sophie, 1885-1970
- Ackermann, Joan
- Parks, Suzan-Lori
- Drama > Study and teaching (Higher) > United States
- Drama > Study and teaching (Secondary) > United States
- Drama > 20th century
- American drama > 20th century
- Note
- "ISSN 1094-9232."
- Each entry contains author biography, plot summary, characters, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, criticism and further reading.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Source of Description (note)
- Description based on print version record.
- Contents
- Arms and the man / George Bernard Shaw -- The belle's stratagem / Hannah Cowley -- The cenci / Antonin Artaud -- The changeling / Thomas Middleton and William Rowley -- Copenhagen / Michael Frayn -- Fires in the mirror / Anna Deavere Smith -- For services rendered / Somerset Maugham -- Habitat / Judith Thompson -- I hate Hamlet / Paul Rudnick -- Imaginary friends / Nora Ephron -- The Laramie project / Moises Kaufman -- Machinal / Sophie Treadwell -- Off the map / Joan Ackermann -- Topdog/underdog / Suzan-Lori Parks.
- OCLC
- ssj0000080777
- Title
Drama for students. Volume 22 [electronic resource] : presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied dramas / Anne Marie Hacht, project editor ; foreword by Carole L. Hamilton.
- Imprint
Detroit, Mich. : Gale, c2006.
- Series
Gale virtual reference library
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Hacht, Anne Marie.
Gale Group.
- Other Form:
Print version: Drama for students, Volume 22. Detroit, Mich. : Gale, c2006 9780787681180