Anyone with an academic, professional, amateur, or recreational
interest in the theater is likely to want to look up details of
particular plays sometimes--perhaps to check on the author, or on
when they were first performed, or perhaps to see how many
characters they have, and whether or not they would be suitable for
their theater company or drama group to perform.
The Oxford Dictionary of Plays provides essential information on
the 1000 best-known, best-loved, and most important plays in world
theater. Each entry includes details of title, author, date of
composition, date of first performance, genre, setting, and the
composition of the cast, and more. A synopsis of the plot and a
brief commentary, perhaps on the context of the play, or the
reasons for its enduring popularity, follow. Around 80 of the most
significant plays-- from The Oresteia to Waiting for Godot--are
dealt with in more detail. Genres covered include: burlesque,
comedy, farce, historical drama, kabuki, masque, melodrama,
morality play, mystery play, No, romantic comedy, tragicomedy,
satire, and tragedy.
An index of characters enables the reader to locate favorite
characters, and trace the trajectory of major historical and
legendary characters--such as Iphigenia--through world drama,
including in plays that do not have entries in the Dictionary. An
index of playwrights, with dates, allows the reader to find all the
plays included by a particular author.
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