How to Study Modern Drama
Author : Kenneth Pickering
Publisher : Palgrave
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 18,54 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Education
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Author : Kenneth Pickering
Publisher : Palgrave
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 18,54 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Education
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Author : Kenneth Pickering
Publisher : Palgrave
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 23,51 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Education
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Author : Richard Gilman
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 40,26 MB
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780300079029
This critical exploration of modern drama begins with Büchner and Ibsen and then discusses the major playwrights who have shaped modern theater. A new introduction by the author assesses developments of recent years.
Author : Kirsten Shepherd-Barr
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 20,46 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0199658773
This book tells the story of modern drama through its seminal, groundbreaking plays and performances, and the artistic diversity that these represent. Exploring the new note of artistic hostility between dramatists and their audience, Shepherd-Barr draws on a range of theories and performances to reveal what makes modern drama 'modern'.
Author : Lynn Altenbernd
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 42,63 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780819172648
Intended for the inexperienced drama student as well as serving as a useful review for the experienced student, this book sets forth its principles briefly and with a modest amount of illustrative material. The author's suggestions should enhance classroom discussion and participation when used alone or in combination with individual dramas or works from anthologies. Topics addressed are: the nature and elements of drama, traditional plays, help in overcoming the initial difficulties in the reading of a play, and understanding the play in both its exposition and its drama. Originally published by Macmillan in 1966.
Author : J. L. Styan
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 15,83 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780820444895
This book introduces the elements of drama and the principles behind the reading and study of plays--classical and modern. It makes a special point of seeing drama as intended for acting and performance, and it therefore emphasizes the role of the spectator at a play and the sort of theatre for which drama was written. The performance approach to the study of plays finally clarifies the different kinds of drama (comedy, tragedy, melodrama, and farce) and identifies its forms (realism, stylization, and symbolism). The book draws on specific examples of drama, is rich in helpful charts and diagrams, and contains a comprehensive glossary. Drama will be a useful guide for students and general playgoers alike.
Author : Una Chaudhuri
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 17,85 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780472065899
The first book-length study of the notion of place and its implications in modern drama
Author : W. B. Worthen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,78 MB
Release : 2015-01-30
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0520286871
The history of drama is typically viewed as a series of inert "styles." Tracing British and American stage drama from the 1880s onward, W. B. Worthen instead sees drama as the interplay of text, stage production, and audience. How are audiences manipulated? What makes drama meaningful? Worthen identifies three rhetorical strategies that distinguish an O'Neill play from a Yeats, or these two from a Brecht. Where realistic theater relies on the "natural" qualities of the stage scene, poetic theater uses the poet's word, the text, to control performance. Modern political theater, by contrast, openly places the audience at the center of its rhetorical designs, and the drama of the postwar period is shown to develop a range of post-Brechtian practices that make the audience the subject of the play. Worthen's book deserves the attention of any literary critic or serious theatergoer interested in the relationship between modern drama and the spectator.
Author : Barrett Harper Clark
Publisher :
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 27,46 MB
Release : 1930
Category : Drama
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Author : Barrett Harper Clark
Publisher :
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 45,51 MB
Release : 1940
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