DRAMA FOR STUDENTS

Analysis, Context & Criticism on Commonly Studied Dramas

Each entry, or chapter, focuses on one drama. The following elements are contained in each entry: Introduction, Author Biography, Plot Summary, Characters, Themes, Style, Historical and Cultural Context, Critical Overview, Sources, For Further Study, Criticism, Media Adaptations, Compare and Contrast Box, What Do I Read Next?, and Study Questions. Each volume is indexed by author, title, nationality/ethnicity, subject, and theme and includes a glossary of literary terms.

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Gale, a part of Cengage Learning

Drama for Students Volumes 1-25

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Highway Stoppard Smith Vidal Beckett Childress Albee Mamet Rabe Pollock Williams Hellman Inge Miller Baraka Orton Wilson Pinter Bond Shaw Weiss Fugard Coward Shepard Odets Albee Jonson Ionesco Wilson Medoff Dorfman Sophocles O'Neill Lorca Carballido Wilde Euripides Osborne Strindberg Eliot Hare Sheridan Pirandello Wilder Brecht Kushner Stoppard Pinter Marlowe Shaffer Wasserstein O'Neill McCullers Brecht Sartre Inge Aeschylus Chekhov Valdez Euripides Fugard Simon Shepard O'Neill Coward Ibsen Shaw Turgenev Tomson Tom Anna Deavere Gore Samuel Alice Edward David (Alan) David Sharon Tennessee Lillian (Florence) William (Motter) Arthur Amiri Joe August Harold Edward George Bernard Peter (Harold) Athol Noel (Peirce) Sam Clifford Edward Ben(jamin) Eugene Lanford Mark Ariel Eugene Federico Garcia Emilio Oscar John August T(homas) S(tearns) David Richard Brinsley Luigi Thornton (Eugen) Bertolt (Friedrich) Tony Tom Harold Christopher Peter Wendy Eugene Carson (Eugen) Bertolt (Friedrich) Jean-Paul William (Motter) Anton Luiz

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Rez Sisters, The Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 Visit to a Small Planet Waiting for Godot Wedding Band, The Zoo Story, The American Buffalo Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel Blood Relations Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Children's Hour, The Come Back, Little Sheba Crucible, The Dutchman Entertaining Mr. Sloane Fences Homecoming, The Lear Major Barbara Marat / Sade Master Harold" and the Boys ("Master) Private Lives True West Waiting for Lefty Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Alchemist, The Bald Soprano, The Burn This Children of a Lesser God Death and the Maiden Electra Hairy Ape, The House of Bernarda Alba, The I, Too, Speak of the Rose Importance of Being Earnest, The Iphigenia in Tauris Look Back in Anger Miss Julie Murder in the Cathedral Plenty School for Scandal Six Characters in Search of an Author Skin of Our Teeth, The Threepenny Opera, The Angels in America Arcadia Birthday Party, The Edward II Equus Heidi Chronicles, The Iceman Cometh, The Member of the Wedding Mother Courage and Her Children No Exit Picnic Prometheus Bound Uncle Vanya Zoot Suit Bacchae, The Boesman & Lena Brighton Beach Memoirs Buried Child Emperor Jones, The Hay Fever Hedda Gabler Man and Superman Month in the Country, A Page 2 of 7

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(Harold) Athol Neil Sam Eugene Noel (Peirce) Henrik (Johan) George Bernard Ivan

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Hurston and Hughes Barnes Mamet Fierstein Orton Hare Pinter Ayckbourn Anonymous Stein Shepard Shue Behan Lloyd Weber and Rice Beckett Williams Kopit Barrie Wilson Capek Delaney Ford Sophocles Miller Rattigan Inge Guare Ibsen Stoppard Wilde Bond Fuller Rabe Albee Glaspell Childress Jarry Anouilh Ionesco Pomerance Hecht Kennedy Strindberg Brecht Wilson Wilde Gorky O'Neill Barry Pirandello Arden Genet Lorca Soyinka Schenkkan Aristophanes Havel Kaufman and Hart Anouilh Aeschylus Fugard Chekhov Albee Jonson Ibsen Sherwood Zora Neale and Langston Peter David (Alan) Harvey (Forbes) Joe David Harold Alan Joseph Sam Larry Brendan Andrew and Tim Samuel Tennessee Arthur (Lee) J(ames) M(atthew) August Karel Shelagh John

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Mule Bone Ruling Class, The Speed-the-Plow Torch Song Trilogy What the Butler Saw Blue Room, The Caretaker, The Chorus of Disapproval, A Everyman Fiddler on the Roof Fool for Love Foreigner, The Hostage, The Jesus Christ Superstar Krapp's Last Tape Night of the Iguana Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Momma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad Peter Pan Piano Lesson, The R.U.R. Taste of Honey, A Tis a Pity She's a Whore ('Tis) Ajax, The All My Sons Browning Version, The Bus Stop House of Blue Leaves Peer Gynt Real Thing, The Salome Saved Soldier's Play, A Streamers Three Tall Women Tries Trouble in Mind Ubu Roi Antigone Chairs, The Elephant Man, The Front Page, The Funny House of a Negro Ghost Sonata, The Good Person (Woman) of Szechuan, The Hot L Baltimore Lady Windemere's Fan Lower Depths, The Mourning Becomes Electra Philadelphia Story Right You Are! (If You Think You Are) Serjeant Musgrave's Dance Balcony, The Blood Wedding Death and the King's Horsemen Kentucky Cycle, The Lysistrata Memorandum, The Once in a Lifetime Ring around the Moon Seven against Thebes Sizwe Banzi Is Dead Three Sisters, The Tiny Alice Volpone Wild Duck, The Abe Lincoln in Illinois Page 3 of 7

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Arthur Terence William (Motter) John Henrik (Johan) Tom Oscar Edward Charles David Edward Susan Alice Alfred Jean Eugene Bernard Ben Adrienne (Lita) August (Eugen) Bertolt (Friedrich) Lanford Oscar Maxim Eugene Philip Luigi John Jean Federico Garcia Wole Robert Vaclav George and Moss Jean (Harold) Athol Anton Edward Ben(jamin) Henrik (Johan) Robert E.

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Baldwin Friel Uhry Ibsen O'Neill Chase Stoppard Capek Hwang Shaw Nicholson Baraka Vallejo Rebeck O'Neill Simon Zindel de Hartog Gogol Connelly Mamet Walker Chekhov Rice Williams Wilson Miller Churchill von Hofmannsthal Shaffer Eliot Hugh Margulies Marlowe Moliere Bonner Clark Albee Guare Shaffer Rabe Patrick Stoppard Edson Ginzburg Cleage Crowley Sheridan Shepard Albee Vogel Congreve Abe Beaumarchais Kingsley Pinter Hellman Childress Kopit Hackett Sackler Sherwood MacLeish Uhry Edgar Wilson Ibsen Baldwin James Brian Alfred Henrik (Johan) Eugene Mary (Coyle) Tom Karel David Henry George Bernard William Amiri Antonio Buero Theresa Eugene Neil Paul Jan Nikolai Marc(us Cook) David (Alan) Joseph A. Anton Elmer Tennessee Lanford Jason Caryl Hugo Peter T(homas) S(tearns) Leonard Donald Christopher Marita John Pepper Edward John Anthony David John Tom Margaret Natalia Pearl Mart Richard Brinsley Sam Edward Paula William Kobo Pierre-Augustin Caron de Sidney Harold Lillian (Florence) Alice Arthur (Lee) Albert (Maurice) Howard (Oliver) Robert Archibald Alfred David August Henrik (Johan) James (Arthur)

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Amen Corner, The Dancing at Lughnasa Driving Miss Daisy Ghosts Great God Brown, The Harvey Indian Ink Life of the Insects, The M. Buttery Saint Joan Shadowlands Slave Ship Sleep of Reason, The Spike Heels Anna Christie Biloxi Blues Effects of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, The Fourposter, The Government Inspector, The Green Pastures, The Life in Theatre, A River Niger, The Seagull Street Scene Sweet Bird of Youth Talley's Folly That Championship Season Top Girls Tower, The Amadeus Cocktail Party, The Da Dinner with Friends Jew of Malta, The Misanthrope, The Purple Flower, The Raft, The Seascape Six Degrees of Separation Sleuth Sticks and Bones Teahouse of the August Moon, The Travesties Wit Advertisment, The Blues for an Alabama Sky Boys in the Band, The Critic, The Curse of the Starving Class Delicate Balance: A Play How I Learned to Drive Love for Love Man Who Turned Into A Stick, The Marriage of Figaro, The Men In White Mountain Language Watch on the Rhine, A Wine in the Wilderness Y2K Diary of Anne Frank, The Great White Hope, The Idiot's Delight J. B. Last Night of Ballyhoo, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickelby Ma Rainey's Black Bottom Master Builder, The One Day When I Was Lost: A Scenario Page 4 of 7

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Mamet Duffy Sheridan Cristofer Kramm Congreve Baraka Beaumarchais Caron de O'Neill Anderson Ibsen Churchill Stoppard Cleage McNally Wilder Wilson Lawrence Behn Hare Hanff Webster Hofmannsthal Odets Wilson Gale Williams Gerstenberg Sherwood Wasserstein Gilroy Schary Saroyan Terry Middleton Beim Beckett Gardner Simon Hughes Synge Hwang McCullers Moliere Williams Glaspell David (Alan) Maureen Richard Brinsley Michael Joseph William Amiri Pierre-Augustin Eugene (Gladstone) Maxwell Henrik (Johan) Caryl Tom Pearl (Michelle) Terrence Thornton (Niven) Lanford Jerome Aphra David Helene John Hugo von Clifford August Zona Tenessee Alice Robert E(mmet) Wendy Frank D(aniel) Dore William Megan Thomas Norman Samuel (Barclay) Herb(ert) (Marvin) Neil (James) Langston (Edmund) J(ohn) M(illington) David Henry (Lula) Carson (Smith) Tennessee Susan

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Reunion Rites Rivals, The Shadow Box, The Shrike, The Way of the World Baptism, The Barber of Seville Beyond the Horizon Both your Houses Brand Cloud Nine Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth Flyin' West Master Class Matchmaker, The Mound Builders, The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, The Rover, The Secret Rapture, The 84 Charing Cross Road Duchess of Mal, The Elektra Golden Boy Joe Turner's Come and Gone Miss Lula Bett Orpheus Descending Overtones Petried Forest, The Sisters Rosensweig, The Subject Was Roses, The Sunrise at Campobello Time Of Your Life, The Calm Down Mother Chaste Maid in Cheapside, A Deserter, The Endgame I'm Not Rappaport Lost in Yonkers Mulatto Playboy of the Western World, The Sound of a Voice, The Square Root of Wonderful, The Tartuffe The Rose Tattoo Verge, The

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Yasmina Jean (Marie Lucien Pierre) Sidney Terrence John (James) George Bernard Sean Warren Howard Hugh (Callingham) Migdalia Steve
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Art Becket Detective Story Love! Valour! Compassion! Luther Mrs. Warren's Profession Red Roses for Me Side Man State of the Union Sweeney Todd Telling Tales WASP
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Angels Fall Arsenic and Old Lace Bent Desperate Hours, The Imaginary Invalid, The Lion in Winter, The Page 5 of 7 Mister Roberts

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Shakespeare Lessing Odets O'Neill Gardner Anderson Foote Iizuka Cruz Beane Wiechmann Wilde Duras Corneille Henley Xingjian Brooks Auburn Shakespeare Kyd Marlowe Shaw Cowley Artaud Middleton Frayn Smith Maugham Thompson Rudnick Ephron Kaufman Treadwell Ackermann Parks Fo Prida Gilman Shanley Blessing Coburn MacDonald Wright Calderon de la Barca Ensler Thompson Larson Lonergan Rose Glaspell Anonymous Leonard Shear Blank Behn Osborne Kopit Cocteau Fugard Simon Greenberg Wilson Sophocles Albee Pinter Ibsen Nottage William Doris (May) Clifford Eugene (Gladstone) Herb(ert) Maxwell Horton Naomi Nilo Douglas Carter Barbara Oscar Marguerite Pierre Beth Gao Mel David William Thomas Christopher George Bernard Hannah Antonin Thomas Michael Anna Deavere Somerset Judith Paul Nora Moises Sophie Joan Suzan-Lori Dario Dolores Rebecca John Patrick Lee D. L. Ann-Marie Doug Pedro Eve Ernest Jonathan Kenneth Reginald Susan Hugh Claudia Jessica Aphra John Arthur Jean Athol Neil Richard August

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Othello Play with a Tiger Rocket to the Moon Strange Interlude Thousand Clowns, A Winterset Young Man from Atlanta, The 36 Views Anna in the Tropics As Bees in Honey Drown Feeding the Moonsh Ideal Husband, An India Song Le Cid Miss Firecracker Contest, The Other Shore, The Producers, The Proof Romeo and Juliet Spanish Tragedy, The Tamburlaine the Great Arms and the Man Belle's Stratagem, The Cenci, The Changeling, The Copenhagen Fires in the Mirror For Services Rendered Habitat I Hate Hamlet Imaginary Friends Laramie Project, The Machinal Off the Map Topdog/Underdog Accidental Death of an Anarchist Beautiful Senoritas Blue Surge Doubt Eleemosynary Gin Game, The Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) I Am My Own Wife Life Is a Dream Necessary Targets On Golden Pond Rent This Is Our Youth Twelve Angry Men Alison's House Arden of Faversham Au Pair Man, The Dirty Blonde Exonerated, The Forc'd Marriage, The Inadmissible Evidence Indians Indiscretions Lesson from Aloes, A Prisoner of Second Avenue, The Take Me Out Two Trains Running Women of Trachis: Trachiniae American Dream Dumb Waiter, The Enemy of the People Fabulation Page 6 of 7

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Edward Harold Henrik Lynn

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Fornes Frisch Lavery Euripides Sondheim Ionesco Anonymous Churchill Gems Maria Irene Max Byrony Stephen Eugene Caryl Pam

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Fefu and her Friends Firebugs, The Frozen Hippolytus Into the Woods Rhinoceros Second Shepherd's Play, The Serious Money Stanley

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