The Drama Handbook
A Guide to Reading Plays
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 31 January 2002
- ISBN 9780198700708
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages430 pages
- Size 215x138x22 mm
- Weight 543 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 8 line drawings 0
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Short description:
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.
MoreLong description:
This book is a compact guide to reading plays, and to the art and techniques of drama. Ranging from classical Greece to modern Drama and performance, but with particular emphasis on the playwrights (including Shakespeare) who are most widely taught and performed, the Handbook covers the whole range of literary, aesthetic, and political questions attending drama, from theatre designs and acting styles to audience composition and editing printed texts. Looking closely at both text and performance, successive sections give clear and detailed information about the conventions of playtexts, the histories of genre, performance spaces, and theatre personnel, as well as current theatre practices. Each chapter also provides an appropriate technical and critical vocabulary, conveniently gathered in a full, indexed glossary. A final section, dealing with drama essays and exams, includes sample student essays, and the bibliography includes targeted further reading as well as extensive guides to playwrights in print and plays on film. Lucid, practical, and thorough, this book is an invaluable resource for anyone who reads plays.
Could be read with profit and pleasure by any theatregoer.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
I. Performance, notation, text
Performance: process and the ephemeral
Notation: documentation, layout, and the preserved
Text I: editing and reception
Text II: the process of reading
II. Reading Structures
What is genre?
Classical genres: tragedy, comedy, satyr-playes, epic
Religious genres: the liturgy, Mysteries, Moralities
Renaissance genres: Commedia dell'arte, tragicomedy, masque, opera
Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century genres: burlesque, sentimental & gothic drama, pantomime, melodrama, music-hall, farce, well-made plays
Social genres: political theatre, agit-prop, documentary and epic drama
The impact of technology: light, sound, radio- & television-plays, film-genres
III. Defining architectures
The study
Rehearsal and administrative space
The stage and auditorium
The scriptorium, printshop, publishing house, bookshop, and library
IV. Personnel in process
Playwrights
Directors
Actors
Dramaturgs and literary managers
Designers
Production staff, stage-crew, and front-of-house
Censors
Audiences
Critics
Editors
Teachers and readers
V. Theatre today
The playtext since the 1950s
Challenges to the playtext
Alternatives to the playtext
VI. Exam conditions
Practical criticism
Period and special papers
Sample answers
Glossary
Index of persons
Index of plays
Bibliography and further reading
