Critical survey of drama / editor, Carl Rollyson, Baruch College, City University of New York.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rollyson, Carl E. (Carl Edmund), editor.

Series:

Gale eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drama--Dictionaries.

Drama.

Drama--History and criticism--Dictionaries.

Drama--Bio-bibliography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (8 volumes (xxviii, 4299 pages)) : illustrations, portraits

Edition:

Third edition.

Place of Publication:

Salem Press

Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Incorporated ; [Amenia, New York] : Grey House Publishing, [2018]

Summary:

Combines, updates, and expands two earlier Salem Press reference sets: Critical survey of drama, Rev. ed., English language series, published in 1994, and Critical survey of drama, Foreign language series, published in 1986 and edited by Frank N. Magill. This new 8 vol. set contains 602 essays, of which 538 discuss individual dramatists and 64 cover broad overview topics. The dramatist profiles contain more than 310 photographs and drawings.

Contents:

v. 1. American drama - World drama

v. 2. Dramatic genres - Bjornson

v. 3. Blessing - Durrenmatt

v. 4. Echegaray y Eizaguirre - Gunderson

v. 5. Hacks - Lessing

v. 6. Lewis - Owens

v. 7. Parks - Soyinka

v. 8. Stafford - Zweig ; Appendixes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781682176399

1682176398

OCLC:

1020318862