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.
Antigone - Jean Anouilh -- The chairs - Eugene Ionesco -- The elephant man - Bernard Pomerance -- The front page - Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur -- Funnyhouse of a negro - Adrienne Kennedy -- The ghost sonata - August Strindberg -- The good person of Szechwan - Bertolt Brecht -- Hot L Baltimore - Lanford Wilson -- Lady Windermere's fan - Oscar Wilde -- The lower depths - Maxim Gorki -- Mourning becomes Electra - Eugene O'Neill -- The Philadelphia story - Philip Barry -- Right you are, if you think you are - Luigi Pirandello -- Serjeant Musgrave's dance - John Arden.
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"ISSN 1094-9232."
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Drama for students. Volume 9 [electronic resource] : presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied dramas / Ira Mark Milne, editor.