Studying Plays
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Studying Plays

Mick Wallis, Simon Shepherd

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Studying Plays

Mick Wallis, Simon Shepherd

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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.

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Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2018
ISBN
9781350007352
Edition
4
Topic
Letteratura
Subtopic
Critica letteraria nel teatro
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.

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