Status
Available
Call number
Publication
Salem Press (Revised Edition)
Pages
3107
Description
Critical essays examine representative plays and identify themes and characteristics employed by more than 170 dramatists ranging from Aeschylus in 400 B.C. to the contemporary Austrian Peter Handke.
Description
Every essay on a dramatist provides such ready reference material as birth and death dates and places and lists of their major dramatic works (with dates of first production and publication). Each essay opens with a brief survey of the author’s publications in literary forms other than drama, a summary of their professional achievementsand awards, an extended biographical sketch that centers on his or her development as a dramatist, and an extensive critical analysis of their major dramatic works. Each major analysis of a play is headed by the work’s title. Following this discussion is a list of major publications in fields other than drama and an annotated bibliography of critical works about the author.
The format of the articles is standardized to allow predictable and easy access to the types of information of interest to a variety of users. Each dramatist essay is broken into the following sections:
Principal Drama: Lists the author’s major plays through mid-1994, including titles and dates of production (pr.) and publication (pb.).
Other Literary Forms: Describes the author’s work in genres other than drama, helping students to identify those authors known primarily as dramatists, as opposed to those whose work in other genres has garnered equal or greater fame.
Achievements: Lists honors, awards, and other tangible recognitions, as well as a summation of the dramatist’s influence and contributions to drama and literature, where appropriate.
Biography: A condensed biographical sketch with vital information from birth through (if applicable) death or the author’s current activities.
Analysis: An overview of the dramatist’s favorite themes, genres, and development, leading into subsections on major plays or aspects of the person’s work as a dramatist.
Bibliography: Secondary print sources for further study, annotated to assist students and librarians in evaluating focus and usefulness. All these bibliographies have been updated and annotated.
Contributor Byline: Name of the original contributor of the article and that of the scholar who updated it, where relevant.
The format of the articles is standardized to allow predictable and easy access to the types of information of interest to a variety of users. Each dramatist essay is broken into the following sections:
Principal Drama: Lists the author’s major plays through mid-1994, including titles and dates of production (pr.) and publication (pb.).
Other Literary Forms: Describes the author’s work in genres other than drama, helping students to identify those authors known primarily as dramatists, as opposed to those whose work in other genres has garnered equal or greater fame.
Achievements: Lists honors, awards, and other tangible recognitions, as well as a summation of the dramatist’s influence and contributions to drama and literature, where appropriate.
Biography: A condensed biographical sketch with vital information from birth through (if applicable) death or the author’s current activities.
Analysis: An overview of the dramatist’s favorite themes, genres, and development, leading into subsections on major plays or aspects of the person’s work as a dramatist.
Bibliography: Secondary print sources for further study, annotated to assist students and librarians in evaluating focus and usefulness. All these bibliographies have been updated and annotated.
Contributor Byline: Name of the original contributor of the article and that of the scholar who updated it, where relevant.
Series
Collection
Language
Original language
English
Physical description
3107 p.; 9.3 inches
ISBN
0893568511 / 9780893568511
Call number
FIC E