american drama

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.

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.

A collection of eight Broadway hits.

Contains articles that provide biographical, bibliographical, and analytical information on approximately eighty of the world's major dramatists, arranged alphabetically from Abe to Camus.

A collection of twenty-two humorous plays for teens and young adults that require very few props.

A comedy built around the Jerome family during the Depression and focusing on fifteen-year-old, Eugene, preoccupied with sex and the Yankees.

A collection of six plays by Lillian Hellman about American life.

Set in a Bronx Catholic school in 1964, a nun is faced with uncertainty as she has grave concerns about a male colleague.

Presents a collection of over one hundred scenes and monologues from some of history's most memorable plays, featuring selections from Alexandre Dumas, Steve Martin, Bernard Shaw, Jane Anderson, Julia Jordan, and others.