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Studying plays / Mick Wallis and Simon Shepherd.

By: Wallis, Mick., author Contributor(s): Shepherd, Simon, author Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York : Bloomsbury Academic, c2018Description: viii, 238 pages ; 23 cmISBN: 978-1-3500-0732-1Subject(s): Drama -- ExplicationLOC classification: PN1707 | W35 2018

Contents:

1 - Getting started 2 - Characters and persons 3 - Dialogue 4 - Plot and action 5 - The actor's body 6 - Spaces 7 - Dealing with some newer kinds of drama 8 - Culture and interpretation

Summary: 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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Includes bibliographical reference and index.

1 - Getting started 2 - Characters and persons 3 - Dialogue 4 - Plot and action 5 - The actor's body 6 - Spaces 7 - Dealing with some newer kinds of drama 8 - Culture and interpretation

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.

In English text.