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PublisherDee Publisher, Ivan R.

ISBN-100941533409

ISBN-139780941533409

eBay Product ID (ePID)644815

Product Key Features

Book TitleDrama Dictionary

Number of Pages432 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1998

TopicTheater / General, Drama, General

IllustratorYes

GenreLiterary Criticism, Drama, Performing Arts, Reference

AuthorTerry Hodgson

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight16 Oz

Item Length8.6 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN89-179185

Dewey Edition20

ReviewsThis work is replete with clear definitions of the drama and of theater.... Thorough, and perhaps, exhaustive.... Recommended., "This work is replete with clear definitions of the drama and of theater.... Thorough, and perhaps, exhaustive.... Recommended." -- Choice Reviews "Essential for academic libraries." -- American Libraries "A wise purchase for many high school and public libraries and for nearly all academic libraries." -- Booklist "One of the outstanding reference sources of 1989." -- Booklist

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Decimal792/.03

SynopsisThis comprehensive reference work is designed to be a single source to which readers may turn for guidance on dramatic theory and practice. It therefore concentrates on critical and technical concepts and terms rather than on theatre history or biography. The book contains some 1300 entries varying in length from a few words to several hundred. The terms included relate to the forms of drama (e.g. epic, mime, farce, comedy of manners, tragi-comedy, etc.); to different kinds of stage (thrust, picture-frame, arena, etc.); to technical stage terms (tabs, proscenium arch, sightlines, etc.); to acting terms, including colloquialisms (fluff, corpse-as well as duologue, soliloquy, cross below, upstage, etc.) They also include the critical terms of important theoreticians (e.g. superobjective, magic 'if', throughline, alienation, montage) and the obvious foreign terms (hamartia, peripeteia, etc.). Dramatic movements and styles are described (naturalism, expressionism, neo-classical, Jacobean, etc.), together with terms relating to costume (e.g. buskins), character types (of, say, the Commedia dell'Arte) and dramatic structure (climax, curtain, pace and tempo, episode, chorus, etc.). The entries are fully cross-referenced, and are supported by ample suggestions for further reading and a selection of line drawings illustrating key points in the text., "Hodgson's work contains more than 1,300 entries that define and illustrate dramatic theory and theatrical practice...This work is replete with clear definitions of the drama and of the theatre. Recommended."-Choice

LC Classification NumberPN1625.H64 1988