Drama for students. Volume 10 [electronic resource] : presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied dramas / Michael L. LaBlanc, editor.
The balcony - Jean Genet -- Blood wedding - Federico Garca Lorca -- Death and the king's horseman - Wole Soyinka -- The Kentucky cycle - Robert Schenkkan -- Lysistrata - Aristophanes -- The memorandum - Vaclav Havel -- Once in a lifetime - George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart -- Ring around the moon - Jean Anouilh -- Seven against Thebes - Aeschylus -- Sizwe Bansi is dead - Athol Fugard -- The three sisters - Anton Chekhov -- Tiny Alice - Edward Albee -- Volpone - Ben(jamin) Jonson -- The wild duck - Henrik Ibsen.
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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.
