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Dramatic Moments: Five One-act Plays, prepared for the first semester students of the First Degree Programme at Kerala University, aims to introduce students to the dramatic genre. It brings together plays by well-known playwrights such as Saki, Margaret Wood and the Quintero brothers. These plays are not only popular, but they are notable for their thought-provoking and insightful analysis of human nature. Each unit in the book has an introduction, a short summary of the work, a detailed glossary and questions.

R Meera Baby is Head, Department of Communicative English, K. N. M. Government Arts and Science College, Kanjiramkulam, Thiruvananthapuram.

Liji Varghese is Assistant Professor of English at All Saints' College, Thiruvananthapuram.

Preface

1. Helena’s Husband
Philip Moeller
2. A Sunny Morning
Serafin and Joaquin Alvarez Quintero
3. The Death Trap
H. H. Munro
4. Day of Atonement
Margaret Wood
5. Fail Not Our Feast

Vincent Godefroy