Title:
Drama for students. Volume 16 [eBook] : presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied dramas
Format:
Electronic Resources
ISBN:
9781414428444
Publication Information:
Detroit, Mich. : Gale, 2003.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xix, 346 pages) : illustrations.
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Contents:
The baptism / Amiri Baraka -- The barber of Seville / Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais -- Beyond the horizon / Eugene O'Neill -- Both your houses / Maxwell Anderson -- Brand / Henrik Ibsen -- Cloud nine / Caryl Churchill -- Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth / Tom Stoppard -- Flyin' West / Pearl Cleage -- Master class / Terrence McNally -- The matchmaker / Thornton Wilder -- The mound builders / Lanford Wilson -- The night Thoreau spent in jail / Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee -- The rover / Aphra Behn -- The secret rapture / David Hare.
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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Electronic Access:
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