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The Drama Handbook
John Lennard
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Description for The Drama Handbook
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 432 pages, 8 line drawings. BIC Classification: 4KL; DSG. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UA) A / AS level. Dimension: 216 x 142 x 24. Weight in Grams: 518.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
Weight
553g
Number of Pages
430
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198700708
SKU
V9780198700708
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Ref
99-1
About John Lennard
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 ... Read more
Reviews for The Drama Handbook
A good basic introduction for first year students to problems of reading plays as performance texts, i.e. reading theatrically.
Professor R. A. Cave, Royal Holloway
Could be read with profit and pleasure by any theatregoer.
Steven Poole, The Guardian
Professor R. A. Cave, Royal Holloway
Could be read with profit and pleasure by any theatregoer.
Steven Poole, The Guardian