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Studying Plays
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Now in its 4th edition, this is an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the critical study of drama. Using familiar examples of classic and contemporary works such as Shakespeare's King Lear, Ibsen's A Doll's House and Timberlake Wertenbaker's Our Country's Good, the book explores the essential elements of play texts, from character, dialogue and plot to theatrical space.
With more in depth guidance on how to study plays in and as performance, both live and in recordings available online, the 4th edition of Studying Plays now includes:
· new examples throughout the book drawn from a range of 21st-century plays by established and emergent writers for diverse theatres and companies
· new explorations of how plays structure and engage audience response
· a complete new section on the analysis of theatre of witness and testimony; monodrama; and postdramatic texts.
With more in depth guidance on how to study plays in and as performance, both live and in recordings available online, the 4th edition of Studying Plays now includes:
· new examples throughout the book drawn from a range of 21st-century plays by established and emergent writers for diverse theatres and companies
· new explorations of how plays structure and engage audience response
· a complete new section on the analysis of theatre of witness and testimony; monodrama; and postdramatic texts.
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GETTING
STARTED
19
This
exercise
can
be
done
for
any
play,
and
any
sequence.
It’s
often
most
interesting
for
those
plays
which
apparently
have
next
to
no
stage
directions.
We
hope
that
by
taking
you
through
it
we
have
suggested
some
of
the
richness,
the
layering,
of
the
dramatic
text
and
at
the
same
time
flagged
up
some
of
the
topics
we
shall
consider
in
the
chapters
which
follow.
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1 Getting started
- Chapter 2 Characters and persons
- Chapter 3 Dialogue
- Chapter 4 Plot and action
- Chapter 5 The actor’s body
- Chapter 6 Spaces
- Chapter 7 Dealing with some newer kinds of drama
- Chapter 8 Culture and interpretation
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
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