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How to Write About Theatre

Name: How to Write About Theatre
ISBN: 9781472520562

A Manual for Critics, Students and Bloggers

Mark Fisher,

296 pages
English
PDF
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eBook - PDF

How to Write About Theatre

A Manual for Critics, Students and Bloggers

Mark Fisher,

About this book

What do you do if you find yourself weeping in the stalls? How should you react to Jude Law's trousers or David Tennant's hair? Are you prepared to receive toilet paper in the post? What if the show you just damned turns out to be a classic? If you gave it a five-star rave will anyone believe you? Drawing on his long years of experience as a national newspaper critic, Mark Fisher answers such questions with candour, wit and insight. Learning lessons from history's leading critics and taking examples from around the world, he gives practical advice about how to celebrate, analyse and discuss this most ephemeral of art forms - and how to make your writing come alive as you do so. Today, more people than ever are writing about theatre, but whether you're blogging, tweeting or writing an academic essay, your challenges as a critic remain the same: how to capture a performance in words, how to express your opinions and how to keep the reader entertained. This inspirational book shows you the way to do it. Foreword by Chris Jones, Chief theater critic, Chicago Tribune

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Languages & Linguistics

Subtopic

Creative Writing

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Languages & Linguistics

INTRODUCTION

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Notes 

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Coleridge, 

Samuel 

Taylor 

(1907), 

Coleridge’s 

Lectures 

on

Shakespeare 

and

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and

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&

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(1994), 

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May

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white 

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in

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chair 

scorning 

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of

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Cover page
Halftitle page
Title page
Copyright page
Dedication page
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
FOREWORD
1 INTRODUCTION
2 HOW TO LEARN FROMCRITICS OF THE PAST
3 HOW TO TAKE ON DIFFERENT CRITICAL STYLES
4 HOW TO WRITE FOR YOUR READERS
5 HOW TO DO YOUR RESEARCH
6 HOW TO FINDYOUR VOICE
7 HOW TO WRITE THE FIRST SENTENCE
8 HOW TO STRUCTURE A REVIEW
9 HOW TO WRITE IN THE MOMENT
10 HOW TO WRITE OPINIONS
11 HOW TO GIVE STAR RATINGS
12 HOW TO WRITE ABOUT ACTING
13 HOW TO WRITE ABOUT PLAYS
14 HOW TO WRITE ABOUT THE PRODUCTION
15 HOW TO WRITE ABOUT THE AUDIENCE
16 HOW TO WRITE ABOUT CONTEXT
17 HOW TO WRITE ABOUT EMOTIONS
18 HOW TO WRITE ABOUT YOUR BIAS
19 HOW TO WRITE ABOUT CULTURE, SOCIETY AND POLITICS
20 HOW TO PUT EVERYTHING TOGETHER
INDEX

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