Types of Drama: Plays and EssaysThis text presents a full range of drama from Ancient Greece to the present. It features an informal tone and an apparatus that provides students with reading strategies for the 27 plays anthologized in the text and discussions on how to criticize them. |
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Tragedy and Comedy | 3 |
Setting Lighting Costume Gestures Sound Effects Dialogue Plot | 28 |
OEDIPUS THE KING Sophocles | 69 |
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