A compact, wide-ranging, and accessible guide to reading plays, The Drama Handbook stresses the importance of understanding performance conventions and production processes through history, and offers clearly defined and presented critical vocabularies.
A compact, wide-ranging, and accessible guide to reading plays, The Drama Handbook stresses the importance of understanding performance conventions and production processes through history, and offers clearly defined and presented critical vocabularies.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
John Lennard teaches at the Universities of Cambridge and Notre Dame, and for the British American Drama Academy in London. He is the author of 'But I Digress' (1991), the best-selling 'The Poetry Handbook' (1996), and an on-line guide, 'Reading Contemporary Poetry' (2001). Mary Luckhurst is Lecturer in Modern Drama at the University of York. She is an award-winning playwright, and has worked as a director. She has edited 'The Creative Writing Handbook', 'On Directing' (2001), and 'On Acting' (forthcoming 2002) for Faber and Faber.
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* Introduction * I. Performance, notation, text * 1: Performance: process and the ephemeral * 2: Notation: documentation, layout, and the preserved * 3: Text I: editing and reception * 4: Text II: the process of reading * II. Reading Structures * 5: What is genre? * 6: Classical genres: tragedy, comedy, satyr-playes, epic * 7: Religious genres: the liturgy, Mysteries, Moralities * 8: Renaissance genres: Commedia dell'arte, tragicomedy, masque, opera * 9: Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century genres: burlesque, sentimental and gothic drama, pantomime, melodrama, music-hall, farce, well-made plays * 10: Social genres: political theatre, agit-prop, documentary and epic drama * 11: The impact of technology: light, sound, radio- and television-plays, film-genres * III. Defining architectures * 12: The study * 13: Rehearsal and administrative space * 14: The stage and auditorium * 15: The scriptorium, printshop, publishing house, bookshop, and library * IV. Personnel in process * 16: Playwrights * 17: Directors * 18: Actors * 19: Dramaturgs and literary managers * 20: Designers * 21: Production staff, stage-crew, and front-of-house * 22: Censors * 23: Audiences * 24: Critics * 25: Editors * 26: Teachers and readers * V. Theatre today * 27: The playtext since the 1950s * 28: Challenges to the playtext * 29: Alternatives to the playtext * VI. Exam conditions * 30: Practical criticism * 31: Period and special papers * 32: Sample answers * Glossary * Index of persons * Index of plays * Bibliography and further reading
* Introduction * I. Performance, notation, text * 1: Performance: process and the ephemeral * 2: Notation: documentation, layout, and the preserved * 3: Text I: editing and reception * 4: Text II: the process of reading * II. Reading Structures * 5: What is genre? * 6: Classical genres: tragedy, comedy, satyr-playes, epic * 7: Religious genres: the liturgy, Mysteries, Moralities * 8: Renaissance genres: Commedia dell'arte, tragicomedy, masque, opera * 9: Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century genres: burlesque, sentimental and gothic drama, pantomime, melodrama, music-hall, farce, well-made plays * 10: Social genres: political theatre, agit-prop, documentary and epic drama * 11: The impact of technology: light, sound, radio- and television-plays, film-genres * III. Defining architectures * 12: The study * 13: Rehearsal and administrative space * 14: The stage and auditorium * 15: The scriptorium, printshop, publishing house, bookshop, and library * IV. Personnel in process * 16: Playwrights * 17: Directors * 18: Actors * 19: Dramaturgs and literary managers * 20: Designers * 21: Production staff, stage-crew, and front-of-house * 22: Censors * 23: Audiences * 24: Critics * 25: Editors * 26: Teachers and readers * V. Theatre today * 27: The playtext since the 1950s * 28: Challenges to the playtext * 29: Alternatives to the playtext * VI. Exam conditions * 30: Practical criticism * 31: Period and special papers * 32: Sample answers * Glossary * Index of persons * Index of plays * Bibliography and further reading
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