(Answered) : Survey Of Literature 18

Question Description

This week’s focus is drama and the reading includes a brief history of drama and a discussion of the elements of drama. Additionally, five dramas are included in the textbook reading. The first play, Trifles by Susan Glaspell, is a one-act play that Glaspell based upon a true story of a murder she covered as a journalist. Glaspell is one of America’s earliest dramatists. The chapter also includes one of the best known American plays by one of our preeminent dramatists: Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller. Three plays by world dramatists are also included: Hamlet by