| Description |
6 volumes (xiv, 2575 pages) ; 24 cm |
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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 -- |
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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 -- |
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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 -- |
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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 -- |
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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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (volume 6, pages 2563-2575). |
| Note |
Includes index. |
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English drama -- Bio-bibliography -- Dictionaries.
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American drama -- Bio-bibliography -- Dictionaries.
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Dramatists, English -- Biography -- Dictionaries.
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Dramatists, American -- Biography -- Dictionaries.
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English drama -- Dictionaries.
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American drama -- Dictionaries.
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Commonwealth drama (English) -- Dictionaries.
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Theater -- Dictionaries.
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| Added Author |
Magill, Frank N. (Frank Northen), 1907-1997.
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| ISBN |
0893563757 set |
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9780893563752 set |
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