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Title Drama for students. Volume 24 : presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied dramas / Jennifer Greve and Ira Mark Milne, project editors ; foreword by Carole L. Hamilton
Published Detroit, Mich. : Thomson Gale, [2007]
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Description 1 online resource (xix, 362 pages) : illustrations
Series Gale virtual reference library
Gale virtual reference library.
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
Notes "ISSN 1094-9232."
Each entry contains author biography, plot summary, characters, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Sophocles. Trachiniae. English.
Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689. Forc'd marriage
Blank, Jessica, 1975- Exonerated
Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963. Indiscretions
Fugard, Athol. Lesson from Aloes
Glaspell, Susan, 1876-1948. Alison's house
Greenberg, Richard, 1958- Take me out
Jensen, Erik, 1970- Exonerated
Kopit, Arthur, 1937- Indians
Leonard, Hugh. Au pair man
Osborne, John, 1929-1994. Inadmissible evidence
Shear, Claudia. Dirty blonde
Simon, Neil. Prisoner of Second Avenue
Wilson, August. Two trains running
SUBJECT Arden of Feversham. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83234896
Arden of Feversham. fast http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst01357418
Trachiniae (Sophocles) fast http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst01358863
Subject American drama -- 20th century.
Drama -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States
Drama -- Study and teaching (Secondary) -- United States
Drama -- 20th century.
American drama.
Drama -- Study and teaching (Higher)
Drama -- Study and teaching (Secondary)
Drama.
United States.
Form Electronic book
Author Greve, Jennifer
Milne, Ira Mark.
Thomson Gale (Firm)
ISBN 1414405685
1414410379
9781414405681
9781414410371