Critical survey of drama. English language series /
This comprehensive study of dramatists, playwrights, historical development and genres contains individual articles on 198 dramatists in the first five volumes. Information for each dramatist includes: a listing of the dramatist's plays, with dates of first release, a survey of publications in...
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Table of Contents:
- Vol. 1: Addison, Joseph
- Albee, Edward
- Anderson, Maxwell
- Anderson, Robert
- Arden, John
- Auden, W.H.
- Ayckbourn, Alan
- Baldwin, James
- Bale, John
- Baraka, Amiri
- Barker, James Nelson
- Barrie, Sir James
- Barry, Philip
- Beaumont, Francis
- Beckett, Samuel
- Behan, Brendan
- Behn, Aphra
- Behrman, S.N.
- Belasco, David
- Besier, Rudolph
- Bird, Robert Montgomery
- Boker, George H.
- Bolt, Robert
- Bond, Edward
- Bottomley, Gordon
- Boucicault, Dion
- Bridie, James
- Brome, Richard
- Browning, Robert
- Bullins, Ed
- Bulwer-Lytton, Edward
- Buzo, Alexander
- Byron, George gordon, Lord
- Centlivre, Mrs. Susannah
- Chapman, George,
- Cibber, Colley
- Clarke, Austin
- Colum, Padraic
- Congreve, William
- Connelly, Marc
- Vol. 2: Coward, Noel
- Crowne, John
- Cumberland, Richard
- Davenant, Sir William
- Davies, Robertson
- Davis, Owen
- Dekker, Thomas
- Denison, Merrill
- Drinkwater, John
- Dryden, John
- Dunlap, William
- Dunsany, Lord
- Eliot, T.S.
- Ervine, St. John
- Etherege, Sir George
- Farquhar, George
- Ferber, Edna
- Fielding, Henry
- Fitch, Clyde
- Fletcher, John
- Foote, Samuel
- Ford, John
- Friel, Brian
- Fry, Christopher
- Fugard, Athol
- Galsworthy, John
- Gascoigne, George
- Gay, John
- Gelber, Jack
- Gibson, William
- Gilbert, W.S.
- Gilroy, Frank D.
- Goldsmith, Oliver
- Granville-Barker, Harley
- Gray, Simon
- Green, Paul
- Greene, Graham
- Greene, Robert
- Gregory, Lady Augusta
- Guare, John
- Vol. 3: Hall, Willis
- Hansberry, Lorraine
- Hardy, Thomas.
- Hart, Lorenz
- Hart, Moss
- Hellman, Lillian
- Henshaw, James Ene
- Heyward, DuBose
- Heywood, John
- Heywood, Thomas
- Horovitz, Israel
- Howard, Bronson
- Howard, Sidney
- Inge, William
- James Henry
- Jones, Henry Arthur
- Jones, Preston
- Jonson, Ben
- Kaufman, George S.
- Kingsley, Sidney
- Kirkland, Jack
- Knowles, James Sheridan
- Kopit, Arthur
- Kops, Bernard
- Kyd, Thomas.
- Laurents, Arthur
- Lawler, Ray
- Lee, Nathaniel
- Lewis, Matthew Gregory
- Lillo, George
- Livings, Henry
- Lodge, Thomas
- Lonsdale, Frederick
- Lyly, John
- McCullers, Carson
- MacDonagh, Donagh
- MacLeish, Archibald
- McNally, Terrence
- Mamet, David
- Marlowe, Christopher
- Marston, John
- Martyn, Edward
- Masefield, John
- Massinger, Philip
- Vol. 4: Maugham, W. Somerset
- Medwall, Henry
- Middleton, Thomas
- Miller, Arthur
- Mortimer, John
- Nashe, Thomas
- Norton, Thomas and Thomas Sackville
- O'Casey, Sean
- Odets, Clifford
- O'Neill, Eugene
- Orton, Joe
- Osborne, John
- Otway, Thomas
- Owens, Rochelle
- Patrick, John
- Patrick, Robert
- Payne, John Howard
- Peele, George
- Pinero, Arthur Wing
- Pinter, Harold
- Planche, James Robinson
- Priestley, J.B.
- Rabe, David
- Rattigan, Terence
- Reaney, James
- Rice, Elmer
- Riggs, Lynn
- Robertson, Thomas William
- Robinson, Lennox
- Rotimi, Ola
- Rowe, Nicholas
- Ryga, George
- Sackler, Howard
- Saroyan, William
- Schisgal, Murray
- Shadwell, Thomas
- Shaffer, Peter
- Shakespeare, William
- Vol. 5: Shaw, George Bernard
- Shelley, Percy Bysshe
- Shepard, Sam
- Sheridan, Richard Brinsley
- Sherriff, R.C.
- Sherwood, Robert E.
- Shirley, James
- Simon, Neil
- Slade, Bernard
- Soyinka, Wole
- Steele, Sir Richard
- Stoppard, Tom
- Storey, David
- Swinburne, Algernon Charles
- Synge, John Millington
- Tennyson, Alfred, Lord
- Thomas, Dylan
- Tourneur, Cyril
- Tyler, Royall
- Udall, Nicholas
- Vanbrugh, Sir John.
- Villiers, George
- The Wakefield Master
- Walcott, Derek A.
- Webster, John
- Wesker, Arnold
- Whiting, John
- Wilde, Oscar
- Wilder, Thornton
- Williams, Emlyn
- Williams, Tennessee
- Williamson, David
- Wilson, Lanford
- Wycherley, William
- Yeats, William Butler
- Zindel, Paul
- Vol. 6: List of Essays
- Dramatic genres
- Staging and production
- Medieval drama
- Elizabethan and Jacobean drama
- Restoration drama.
- Eighteenth century drama
- Nineteenth century British drama
- Twentieth century British drama
- American drama
- African drama
- Afro-American drama
- Australian drama
- Canadian drama
- Irish drama
- West Indian drama
- English language opera
- Musical drama
- Experimental theater
- Radio drama
- Television drama
- Cinema and drama
- Acting styles
- Dramatic terms and movements
- Bibliography
- Supplement: Akalaitis, JoAnne
- Barnes, Peter
- Braun, Volker
- Brenton, Howard
- Cesaire, Aime
- Chin, Frank
- Clark, John Pepper
- Clarke, Martha
- Crowley, Mart
- Delaney, Shelagh
- Diderot, Denis
- Dorst, Tankred
- Durang, Christopher
- Fo, Dario
- Foreman, Richard
- Frayn, Michael
- Fredro, Aleksander
- Gambaro, Griselda
- Grass, Gunter
- Gurney, Albert
- Hakim, Tawfiq al-
- Hare, David
- Henley, Beth
- Innaurato, Albert
- Kantor, Tadeusz
- Kennedy, Adrienne
- Kohout, Pavel
- Leonard, Hugh
- Linney, Romulus
- Medoff, Mark
- Metastasio, Pietro
- Muller, Heiner
- Ngugi wa Thiong'o
- Nichols, Peter
- Norman, Marsha
- Orkeny, Istvan
- Pinget, Robert
- Ribman, Ronald
- Sastre, Alfonso
- Shange, Ntozake
- Shawn, Wallace
- Terry, Megan
- Tremblay, Michel
- Usigli, Rodolfo
- Valdez, Luis Miguel
- Vilalta, Maruxa
- Walser, Martin
- White, Patrick
- Wilson, Robert.