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963043
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b717413
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Drama for students. : presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied dramas /\ Jennifer Greve and Ira Mark Milne, project editors ; foreword by Carole L. Hamilton.
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| Publication Statement
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Detroit, Mich. :: Thomson Gale,, ©2007.
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| Series Statement
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Gale virtual reference library
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1 online resource (xix, 362 pages) :: illustrations.
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| ISBN
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1414405685
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: 1414410379
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: 9781414405681
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: 9781414410371
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0787681202
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9780787681203
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"ISSN 1094-9232."
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Each entry contains author biography, plot summary, characters, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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| Abstract
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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.
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Sophocles., Trachiniae., English.
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Behn, Aphra,1640-1689., Forc'd marriage.
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Blank, Jessica,1975-Exonerated.
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Cocteau, Jean,1889-1963., Indiscretions.
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Fugard, Athol., Lesson from Aloes.
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Glaspell, Susan,1876-1948., Alison's house.
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Greenberg, Richard,1958-Take me out.
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Jensen, Erik,1970-Exonerated.
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Kopit, Arthur,1937-Indians.
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Leonard, Hugh., Au pair man.
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Osborne, John,1929-1994., Inadmissible evidence.
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Shear, Claudia., Dirty blonde.
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Simon, Neil., Prisoner of Second Avenue.
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Wilson, August., Two trains running.
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American drama-- 20th century.
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Drama-- Study and teaching (Higher)-- United States.
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Drama-- Study and teaching (Secondary)-- United States.
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Drama-- 20th century.
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American drama.
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Drama-- Study and teaching (Higher)
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Drama-- Study and teaching (Secondary)
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Drama.
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Arden of Feversham.
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Arden of Feversham.
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Trachiniae (Sophocles)
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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809.2
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PN1601.D595 2007 vol. 24eb
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Greve, Jennifer.
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Milne, Ira Mark.
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Thomson Gale (Firm)
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