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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; essays on play's construction; and excerpted critical commentary.

Theater --- Dramatic criticism. --- Drama --- Drama. --- American drama. --- Dramatists. --- History and criticism. --- Study and teaching (Higher) --- Study and teaching (Secondary) --- Jonson, Ben, --- Ionesco, Eug�ene. --- Wilson, Lanford, --- Medoff, Mark Howard. --- Dorfman, Ariel. --- Sophocles. --- O'Neill, Eugene, --- Garc�ia Lorca, Federico, --- Wilde, Oscar, --- Euripides. --- Carballido, Emilio. --- Osborne, John, --- Strindberg, August, --- Eliot, T. S. --- Hare, David, --- Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, --- Pirandello, Luigi, --- Wilder, Thornton, --- Brecht, Bertolt, --- Ionesco, Eugène. --- García Lorca, Federico,

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Presents vital information on the most-studied short stories at the high school and early-college levels. Each entry contains author biography, plot summary, characters, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism.

Languages & Literatures --- Literature - General --- Short story --- Short story. --- Study and teaching (Higher) --- Study and teaching (Secondary) --- Mansfield, Katherine, --- Thurber, James, --- Anderson, Sherwood , --- O'Connor, Flannery. --- Dubus, Andre, --- Balzac, Honore de, --- Kundera, Milan. --- Wodehouse, P. G. --- Silko, Leslie Marmon, --- Babel, I. --- Trevor, William, --- Scott, Walter, --- Sontag, Susan, --- Boyle, Kay, --- Welty, Eudora,