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Author
Publisher
Twayne Publishers
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
Provides analysis of American playwrights whose works have a strong feminist message. Covers four eras, including feminist dramatists of colonial America, the suffrage plays of the early women's movement, the social protest dramas of the 1920s and 1930s, and the plays advocating equal rights from the late 1960s onward.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the late 60s, Ntozake Shange was a young student at Barnard College discovering her budding talent as a writer, publishing in her school's literary journal, and finding her unique voice. By the time she left us in 2018, Shange had scorched blazing trails across countless pages and stages, redefining genre and form as we know it. Sing a Black Girl's Song is a new posthumous collection of unpublished works from throughout the life of this seminal...
Author
Language
English
Description
"This is a chronological review of both the plays and the people that brought the world of homosexuals, bisexuals, transexuals, metrosexuals, and the sexually fluid to the American stage. The plays--which take in a few foreign imports--treat strong gay content (e. g., The Boys in the Band or The Killing of Sister George), or minor gay content (Season In the Sun, The Nervous Set), or even a phrase in passing (as in New Faces of 1956's joke about Rome's...
5) Drama for students: Volume 29 :presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied dramas
Series
Publisher
Gale
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
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.
6) Drama for students: Volume 30 :presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied dramas
Series
Publisher
Gale
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Provides critical overviews of the most-studied plays of all time periods, nations, and cultures. Includes discussions of themes, characters, critical reception, dramatic devices and traditions as well as cultural and historical context.
7) Drama for students: Volume 28 :presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied dramas
Series
Publisher
Gale
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Provides critical overviews of the most-studied plays of all time periods, nations, and cultures. Includes discussions of themes, characters, critical reception, dramatic devices and traditions as well as cultural and historical context.
8) Drama for students: Volume 27 :presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied dramas
Series
Publisher
Gale
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Provides critical overviews of the most-studied plays of all time periods, nations, and cultures. Includes discussions of themes, characters, critical reception, dramatic devices and traditions as well as cultural and historical context.
Publisher
California Newsreel
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
This documentary sheds valuable light on all aspects of Lorraine Hansberry's play, A Raisin in the Sun, including the daunting challenge of securing investment and a venue for this production about a working class Black family, the casting process, artistic debates and finally its public reception. The film features interviews with the play's original cast members, Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, Louis Gossett, Jr. and Glynn Turman, director Lloyd Richards,...
10) Drama for students: Volume 17 :presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied dramas
Series
Publisher
Gale
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Provides critical overviews of the most-studied plays of all time periods, nations, and cultures. Includes discussions of themes, characters, critical reception, dramatic devices and traditions as well as cultural and historical context.
11) Drama for students: Volume 18 :presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied dramas
Series
Publisher
Gale
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Provides critical overviews of the most-studied plays of all time periods, nations, and cultures. Includes discussions of themes, characters, critical reception, dramatic devices and traditions as well as cultural and historical context.
12) Drama for students: Volume 19 :presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied dramas
Series
Publisher
Gale
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Provides critical overviews of the most-studied plays of all time periods, nations, and cultures. Includes discussions of themes, characters, critical reception, dramatic devices and traditions as well as cultural and historical context.
13) Drama for students: Volume 25 :presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied dramas
Series
Publisher
Gale
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
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.
14) Drama for students: Volume 24 :presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied dramas
Series
Publisher
Gale
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
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.
15) Drama for students: Volume 21 :presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied dramas
Series
Publisher
Gale
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Provides critical overviews of the most-studied plays of all time periods, nations, and cultures. Includes discussions of themes, characters, critical reception, dramatic devices and traditions as well as cultural and historical context.
16) Drama for students: Volume 8 :presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied dramas
Series
Publisher
Gale
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
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.
17) Drama for students: Volume 20 :presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied dramas
Series
Publisher
Gale
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Provides critical overviews of the most-studied plays of all time periods, nations, and cultures. Includes discussions of themes, characters, critical reception, dramatic devices and traditions as well as cultural and historical context.
18) Drama for students: Volume 22 :presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied dramas
Series
Publisher
Gale
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Provides critical overviews of the most-studied plays of all time periods, nations, and cultures. Includes discussions of themes, characters, critical reception, dramatic devices and traditions as well as cultural and historical context.
19) Drama for students: Volume 26 :presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied dramas
Series
Publisher
Gale
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
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.
20) Drama for students: Volume 23 :presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied dramas
Series
Publisher
Gale
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Provides critical overviews of the most-studied plays of all time periods, nations, and cultures. Includes discussions of themes, characters, critical reception, dramatic devices and traditions as well as cultural and historical context.
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