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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.

Drama --- American drama --- Study and teaching (Higher) --- Study and teaching (Secondary) --- Terry, Megan. --- Middleton, Thomas, --- Beim, Norman. --- Beckett, Samuel, --- Gardner, Herb, --- Simon, Neil. --- Hughes, Langston, --- Synge, J. M. --- Williams, Tennessee, --- Hwang, David Henry, --- McCullers, Carson, --- Moli�re, --- Glaspell, Susan, --- Molière,

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Provides analysis of the most frequently studied poems in literature courses. Contains author biography (if attributed), poem text, poem summary, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism.

Poetry, Modern --- Poetry --- Poetry --- History and criticism. --- Study and teaching. --- History and criticism. --- Tagore, Rabindranath, --- Kumin, Maxine, --- Collins, Billy. --- Strand, Mark, --- Agha, Shahid Ali, --- Hardy, Thomas, --- Paz, Octavio, --- Forche, Carolyn. --- Rogers, Pattiann, --- Parker, Dorothy, --- Akhmatova, Anna Andreevna, --- Carson, Anne, --- Pinsky, Robert. --- Ho, Xuan Huong. --- Matsuo, Basho, --- Kizer, Carolyn.

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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.

Short story --- Short story. --- Study and teaching (Higher) --- Study and teaching (Secondary) --- Borges, Jorge Luis, --- Tyler, Anne. --- Houston, Pam. --- Bis�a�t�i, Mu�hammad. --- Bowles, Paul, --- Maugham, W. Somerset --- Oates, Joyce Carol, --- Jin, Ha, --- Barthelme, Donald. --- Hemingway, Ernest, --- Wetzel, Marlene Reed. --- Devlin, Anne. --- Asimov, Isaac, --- Salinger, J. D. --- Chopin, Kate, --- Bisāṭī, Muḥammad.

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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 --- Theater --- Dramatic criticism. --- Drama --- Drama --- Drama --- Drama. --- Drama --- American drama. --- Dramatists. --- History and criticism. --- Study and teaching (Higher) --- Study and teaching (Secondary) --- Goodrich, Frances. --- Hackett, Albert. --- Sackler, Howard. --- Sherwood, Robert E. --- MacLeish, Archibald, --- Uhry, Alfred. --- Edgar, David, --- Wilson, August. --- Ibsen, Henrik, --- Baldwin, James, --- Mamet, David. --- Duffy, Maureen. --- Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, --- Cristofer, Michael. --- Kramm, Joseph, --- Congreve, William,

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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 --- Theater --- Dramatic criticism. --- Drama --- Drama --- Drama --- Drama. --- Drama --- American drama. --- Dramatists. --- History and criticism. --- Study and teaching (Higher) --- Study and teaching (Secondary) --- Kushner, Tony. --- Kushner, Tony. --- Stoppard, Tom. --- Pinter, Harold, --- Marlowe, Christopher, --- Shaffer, Peter, --- Wasserstein, Wendy. --- O'Neill, Eugene, --- McCullers, Carson, --- Brecht, Bertolt, --- Sartre, Jean-Paul, --- Inge, William. --- Aeschylus. --- Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, --- Valdez, Luis.