This index to commentaries on modern playwrights and their plays contains approximately 12,000 entries on 300 American and foreign playwrights, the majority of which are from the twentieth century. Intended for the student, this volume is organized in a single alphabetical listing. Under each playwright's name is a general section where…

Contends that Pinter's play, No Man's Land, is about impotency as well as stasis and old age. Focuses on the allusions to sex which function both literally and figuratively and includes metaphorical ramifications of the mentally, emotionally, and spiritually barren. (MH)

Current research in primary school drama education provides a complex and challenging stage for playing out current theoretical debates in both education and within the specific field of drama. This paper discusses some of these controversies, in particular, the view that education has a modernist agenda, and the conflict this causes in what many…

Using qualitative and interpretive methodologies, this dissertation analyzed Richard Courtney's writings to interpret his basic ideas on learning through drama. It focused on later writings (1989, 1990, 1995, 1997) in which Courtney distilled ideas he had been working on for as many as 30 years. It approached Courtney's texts using dramatistic…

Analyzes several versions of "Romeo and Juliet," concluding that the films by George Cukor and Franco Zeffirelli do justice to Shakespeare's tragedy. (RB)

Analyzes Akira Kurosawa's interpretation of "Macbeth,""The Throne of Blood," finding Kurosawa's interpretation unsatisfactory. (RB)

Employing Oedipus Rex'' and The Birthday Party'' as examples, the author demonstrates that literary criticism should give careful attention to parallels in format and content in the study of classical and modern drama. (RB)

An analysis of Congreve's use of the traditional comic image of disguise in the subtle and revealing forms of artifice in this play." (Author)

The author presents an offering of titles in drama and oral communications. (Editor/AS)