Drama for Students

Each volume of Drama for Students features coverage of 15 to 20 plays that are frequently studied in literature classes. Each detailed entry includes an introduction that provides an overview of the play; a brief biography of the playwright; a plot summary; an annotated character list; a discussion of the play’s principal themes; understandable essays on the play’s construction (setting, dialogue, imagery); historical and cultural context sections that illuminate the play’s role in inter-curricular studies; excerpted critical commentary on various facets of the play; extensive subject/theme, ethnicity/nationality and author/title indexes; and much more.