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Understanding Plays by Milly S. Barranger (2003, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherAllyn & Bacon, Incorporated
ISBN-100205381901
ISBN-139780205381906
eBay Product ID (ePID)2361196
Product Key Features
Number of Pages752 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameUnderstanding Plays
SubjectTheater / General, General
Publication Year2003
FeaturesRevised
TypeTextbook
AuthorMilly S. Barranger
Subject AreaPerforming Arts
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight41.8 Oz
Item Length9.3 in
Item Width7 in
Additional Product Features
Edition Number3
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN2003-048042
Dewey Edition20
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal808.2
Table Of ContentPreface. I. INTRODUCTION. 1. From Text to Performance. Drama and Performance. Dramaturgy. Drama's Stages. Dramatic Time. Drama's Landscapes. Drama's Meanings and Messages. Critics Notebook. Re-Visiting Drama and Performance. Photo. II. ELEMENTS OF DRAMA. 2. Understanding Play Structure. Drama's Special Mirrors. Climactic Play Structure. Episodic Play Structure. Situational Play Structure. Reflexive Structure. The Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark, William Shakespeare. Performing Hamlet. Critics Notebook. Re-Visiting Play Structure. Photo: Peter Brooks Hamlet at Brooklyn Academy of Music. 3. Understanding Character. Character's Doubleness. Classical versus Modern Characters. Observing Character-in-Action. A Common Humanity. Darwin, Marx, and Freud. Who's There? Postmodern Dissolution. The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams. Performing The Glass Menagerie. Critics Notebook. Re-Visiting Dramatic Character. Photo. 4. Understanding Language. The Verbal Text. Language as Organization. Conventions of Stage Language. The Cherry Orchard, Anton Chekhov. Performing The Cherry Orchard. Critics Notebook. Re-Visiting Stage Language. Photo. III. TYPES OF DRAMATIC WRITING. 5. Tragedy. Origins of Theater and Drama. Aristotle's Definitions. Drama's Elements and Conventions. Theories of Tragedy. Oedipus the King, Sophocles. Performing Oedipus the King. Critics Notebook. Re-Visiting Greek Tragedy. Photo: Smetana theater/Josef Svoboda Production, Prague. 6. Comedy. Origins of Comedy. Theories of Comedy. English Comedy and Neoclassical Theory. The Comedy of Manners. The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde. Performing The Importance of Being Earnest. Critics Notebook. Re-Visiting High Comedy. Photo. 7. Farce and Satire. Background. Farce and Comedy. Satire and Society. The Colored Museum, George C.Wolfe. Performing The Colored Museum. Critics Notebook. Revisiting Farce and Satire. Photo: The Colored Museum, NY Shakespeare Festival Production.* 8. Tragicomedy and New Forms. The Mixed Genre. Modern Tragicomedy. Angels in America Part One: Millennium Approaches, Tony Kushner. Performing Angels in America. Critics Notebook. Re-Visiting Drama and Society. IV. UNDERSTANDING MODERN WRITING STYLES. 9. Understanding Modernism. Background. Fragmentation. Modernist Theory. Hedda Gabler, Henrik Ibsen. Performing Hedda Gabler. Critics Notebook. Re-Visiting Modernism. Photo: Kate Burton in Hedda Gabler, Broadway, 2001. 10. Understanding Modern Realism. Observations on the Ordinary The New Dramatic Text The Photographic Landscape Naturalisms Case Studies. The Well-Made Pl
Edition DescriptionRevised edition
SynopsisUnderstanding Plays As Texts for Performance offers seventeen plays with critical commentaries that span the range of Western writing for the theatre from the Greeks to the post-moderns. This book introduces readers to dramatic writing as "pre-texts" for theatrical performance written not only to be read, but also to be performed by actors before audiences., A textbook for a one-semester course in theater or literature. Along with scripts of 16 plays from classical Greek to modern, are commentaries by playwrights, directors, scholars, and critics. Earlier editions appeared in 1990 and 1994; the third includes new plays and commentary. Annotation (c) Bo
LC Classification NumberPN1721.B37 2004
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