Angels in America - Tony Kushner -- Arcadia - Tom Stoppard -- The birthday party - Harold Pinter -- Edward II - Christopher Marlowe -- Equus - Peter Shaffer -- The Heidi chronicles - Wendy Wasserstein -- The iceman cometh - Eugene O'Neill -- Member of the wedding - Carson McCullers -- Mother courage and her children - Bertolt Brecht -- No exit - Jean-Paul Sartre -- Picnic - William Inge -- Prometheus bound - Aeschylus -- Uncle Vanya - Anton Chekhov -- Zoot suit - Luis Valdez.
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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.
