Critical survey of drama
By: [editor, Frank N. Magill].
Contributors: Rollyson, Carl E.; Magill, Frank Northen, 1907-
Edition: 2nd rev. ed. / editor, Carl Rollyson.
Publisher: Salem Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Pasadena, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 4558
Subjects: Drama -- Dictionaries; Drama -- History and criticism -- Dictionaries; Drama -- Bio-bibliography; English drama -- Dictionaries; American drama -- Dictionaries; Commonwealth drama (English) -- Dictionaries; English drama -- Bio-bibliography; American drama -- Bio-bibliography; Commonwealth drama (English) -- Bio-bibliography
Genres: Dictionaries.; Bio-bibliography.
Description: 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. 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. Kobo Abe - Albert Camus; title: v. 2. Minna Canth - Richard Foreman; title: v. 3. Maria Irene Fornes - Tina Howe; title: v. 4. Victor Hugo - John Marston; title: v. 5. Jane Martin - Lennox Robinson; title: v. 6. Jules Romains - William Trevor; title: v. 7. Giangiorgio Trissino - Arnold Zweig, Essays; title: v. 8. Essays, resources, indexes.