Drama: Discovering Genre (Paperback)
Immerse your students in the intricacies of tone, style, and meaning
Get to the heart of the matter with this new series of detailed genre studies. Not mere comprehension books, Discovering Genre contains both a wide variety of selections of your favorite reading assignments and analytical questions that focus the reader on the use of language in the passages.
We ask pointed questions—and answer them—about each included work that will help your students grasp intricacies, alternative interpretations, literary terms, figurative language, and points of plot that they might have otherwise missed. Essentially, these books give your students a thorough understanding of what makes a really good poem, short story, or work of drama so excellent.
Three full-length plays, Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler, Shaw’s Pygmalion, and Chekhov’s The Sea-Gull, help students to explore the unique aspects of drama as a literary genre through questions aimed at exploring the choices a playwright makes in creating a work for the stage. Introduce your drama unit with these popular plays and your students will develop a lifelong appreciation for plays as literature.
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