Author: James R Russo
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1782847588
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This play-analysis textbook contains 50 short essays on geographically diverse, historically significant dramas -- among them Major Barbara, Our Town, Hamlet, A Streetcar Named Desire, Romeo and Juliet, Miss Julie, Electra, Death of a Salesman, The Balcony, The Cherry Orchard, Mother Courage, The Merry Wives of Windsor, and Old Times. The essays are supported by a Step-by-Step Approach to Play Analysis, a Glossary of Dramatic Terms, Study Guides, Topics for Writing and Discussion, Bibliographical Resources, and a comprehensive Index. Written for university and advanced high school students, these critical essays provide practical models to aid and promote writing and analytical skills. The author is a close reader committed to a detailed yet objective examination of the structure, style, imagery, and language of a play. He is concerned with dramatic analysis that can be of benefit to directors, designers, and even actors. Analysis of character, action, dialogue, and setting can thus be translated into concepts for theatrical production. The three key benefits of ANALYZING DRAMA are: 1. Most so-called play analysis texts are books about the methods and techniques of play analysis but contain few (if any) actual play analyses. The book describes the methods and techniques of play analysis while at the same time providing numerous examples of such analysis. 2. The Topics for Writing and Discussion and Study Guides provide a wide range of set tasks for students. 3. Readings are not biased by any particular social or political doctrine. Aimed at students, teachers, educated readers, and drama aficionados with an interest in world drama in particular and drama studies in general, as well as at theatregoers with an interest in the practice of play analysis and criticism.
Analyzing Drama
Author: James R Russo
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1782847588
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This play-analysis textbook contains 50 short essays on geographically diverse, historically significant dramas -- among them Major Barbara, Our Town, Hamlet, A Streetcar Named Desire, Romeo and Juliet, Miss Julie, Electra, Death of a Salesman, The Balcony, The Cherry Orchard, Mother Courage, The Merry Wives of Windsor, and Old Times. The essays are supported by a Step-by-Step Approach to Play Analysis, a Glossary of Dramatic Terms, Study Guides, Topics for Writing and Discussion, Bibliographical Resources, and a comprehensive Index. Written for university and advanced high school students, these critical essays provide practical models to aid and promote writing and analytical skills. The author is a close reader committed to a detailed yet objective examination of the structure, style, imagery, and language of a play. He is concerned with dramatic analysis that can be of benefit to directors, designers, and even actors. Analysis of character, action, dialogue, and setting can thus be translated into concepts for theatrical production. The three key benefits of ANALYZING DRAMA are: 1. Most so-called play analysis texts are books about the methods and techniques of play analysis but contain few (if any) actual play analyses. The book describes the methods and techniques of play analysis while at the same time providing numerous examples of such analysis. 2. The Topics for Writing and Discussion and Study Guides provide a wide range of set tasks for students. 3. Readings are not biased by any particular social or political doctrine. Aimed at students, teachers, educated readers, and drama aficionados with an interest in world drama in particular and drama studies in general, as well as at theatregoers with an interest in the practice of play analysis and criticism.
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1782847588
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This play-analysis textbook contains 50 short essays on geographically diverse, historically significant dramas -- among them Major Barbara, Our Town, Hamlet, A Streetcar Named Desire, Romeo and Juliet, Miss Julie, Electra, Death of a Salesman, The Balcony, The Cherry Orchard, Mother Courage, The Merry Wives of Windsor, and Old Times. The essays are supported by a Step-by-Step Approach to Play Analysis, a Glossary of Dramatic Terms, Study Guides, Topics for Writing and Discussion, Bibliographical Resources, and a comprehensive Index. Written for university and advanced high school students, these critical essays provide practical models to aid and promote writing and analytical skills. The author is a close reader committed to a detailed yet objective examination of the structure, style, imagery, and language of a play. He is concerned with dramatic analysis that can be of benefit to directors, designers, and even actors. Analysis of character, action, dialogue, and setting can thus be translated into concepts for theatrical production. The three key benefits of ANALYZING DRAMA are: 1. Most so-called play analysis texts are books about the methods and techniques of play analysis but contain few (if any) actual play analyses. The book describes the methods and techniques of play analysis while at the same time providing numerous examples of such analysis. 2. The Topics for Writing and Discussion and Study Guides provide a wide range of set tasks for students. 3. Readings are not biased by any particular social or political doctrine. Aimed at students, teachers, educated readers, and drama aficionados with an interest in world drama in particular and drama studies in general, as well as at theatregoers with an interest in the practice of play analysis and criticism.
The Theory and Analysis of Drama
Author: Manfred Pfister
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521423830
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Manfred Pfister's book is the first to provide a coherent comprehensive framework for the analysis of plays in all their dramatic and theatrical dimensions. The material on which his analysis is based covers all genres and periods. His approach is systematic rather than historical, combining more abstract categorisations with detailed interpretations of sample texts.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521423830
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Manfred Pfister's book is the first to provide a coherent comprehensive framework for the analysis of plays in all their dramatic and theatrical dimensions. The material on which his analysis is based covers all genres and periods. His approach is systematic rather than historical, combining more abstract categorisations with detailed interpretations of sample texts.
Analyzing Performance
Author: Patrice Pavis
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472066896
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
An indispensable guide for the study of performance, by France's leading theater critic, now available in English
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472066896
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
An indispensable guide for the study of performance, by France's leading theater critic, now available in English
Dramatic Extracts in Seventeenth-Century English Manuscripts
Author: Laura Estill
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1611495156
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Throughout the seventeenth century, early modern play readers and playgoers copied dramatic extracts into their commonplace books, verse miscellanies, diaries, and songbooks. This is the first book to examine these often overlooked texts, which reveal what early modern audiences and readers took, literally and figuratively, from plays.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1611495156
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Throughout the seventeenth century, early modern play readers and playgoers copied dramatic extracts into their commonplace books, verse miscellanies, diaries, and songbooks. This is the first book to examine these often overlooked texts, which reveal what early modern audiences and readers took, literally and figuratively, from plays.
DRAMA STUDY: History and Theory
Author: I GUSTI AGUNG SRI RWA JAYANTINI
Publisher: Zifatama Jawara
ISBN: 6236448876
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 135
Book Description
Buku ini dimaksudkan untuk digunakan oleh mahasiswa jurusan Bahasa Inggris pada program sarjana yang mempelajari Bahasa Inggris sebagai Bahasa Asing di Indonesia. Sebagai acuan dalam mata kuliah Drama tingkat sarjana, buku ini diterbitkan secara sederhana agar mahasiswa memahami landasan teori drama sebagai salah satu karya sastra. Teori-teori tersebut diberikan sebelum praktik pembuatan drama yang akan dibawakan oleh mahasiswa untuk tugas akhir. Karena telah diketahui secara luas bahwa drama menggunakan alur dan tokoh untuk menghadirkan tema yang dapat membangkitkan emosi atau humor, maka genre sastra ini dipahami sebagai pelarian atau interpretatif karena mencerminkan nilai-nilai kehidupan melalui ciri-cirinya yang spesifik. Keistimewaan yang dimilikinya membuat drama berbeda dengan fiksi prosa. Untuk mencapai pemahaman dasar dalam pembelajaran drama, buku ini memberikan beberapa pembahasan yaitu (1) sastra dan drama, (2) sejarah drama, (3) pengertian drama, (4) struktur drama (5) tokoh dan ( 6) bahasa dan retorika.
Publisher: Zifatama Jawara
ISBN: 6236448876
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 135
Book Description
Buku ini dimaksudkan untuk digunakan oleh mahasiswa jurusan Bahasa Inggris pada program sarjana yang mempelajari Bahasa Inggris sebagai Bahasa Asing di Indonesia. Sebagai acuan dalam mata kuliah Drama tingkat sarjana, buku ini diterbitkan secara sederhana agar mahasiswa memahami landasan teori drama sebagai salah satu karya sastra. Teori-teori tersebut diberikan sebelum praktik pembuatan drama yang akan dibawakan oleh mahasiswa untuk tugas akhir. Karena telah diketahui secara luas bahwa drama menggunakan alur dan tokoh untuk menghadirkan tema yang dapat membangkitkan emosi atau humor, maka genre sastra ini dipahami sebagai pelarian atau interpretatif karena mencerminkan nilai-nilai kehidupan melalui ciri-cirinya yang spesifik. Keistimewaan yang dimilikinya membuat drama berbeda dengan fiksi prosa. Untuk mencapai pemahaman dasar dalam pembelajaran drama, buku ini memberikan beberapa pembahasan yaitu (1) sastra dan drama, (2) sejarah drama, (3) pengertian drama, (4) struktur drama (5) tokoh dan ( 6) bahasa dan retorika.
Analysing the Pragmatics of Speech Acts in Sitcom and Drama Audiovisual Genres
Author: Manuel Rodríguez Peñarroja
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527557359
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
This book provides positive evidence regarding the validity of the language used in sitcom and drama audiovisual genres and its possible applicability to the teaching of pragmatics in English as second and foreign language contexts. The first part of the text includes a description of pragmatics and its components, speech act theories development, and the use of audiovisual input for the teaching of pragmatic aspects. The second section is devoted to the sitcom and drama transcripts analysis of direct and indirect realisations of multiple speech acts as pragmalinguistic resources, sociopragmatic variables that may influence conversation, such as politeness needs and context, and interactional patterns, including turn-taking, sequences and adjacency pairs. The book provides insightful quantitative and qualitative results which will serve to confirm, along with previous research, the usefulness and validity of this type of input, not only for teaching pragmatics, but also for the development of tasks and activities with different pedagogical outcomes and students’ needs. As such, this volume is a useful resource for pragmaticians and discourse analysis scholars since its complete analysis of transcripts justifies the validity of audiovisual input and its different applications.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527557359
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
This book provides positive evidence regarding the validity of the language used in sitcom and drama audiovisual genres and its possible applicability to the teaching of pragmatics in English as second and foreign language contexts. The first part of the text includes a description of pragmatics and its components, speech act theories development, and the use of audiovisual input for the teaching of pragmatic aspects. The second section is devoted to the sitcom and drama transcripts analysis of direct and indirect realisations of multiple speech acts as pragmalinguistic resources, sociopragmatic variables that may influence conversation, such as politeness needs and context, and interactional patterns, including turn-taking, sequences and adjacency pairs. The book provides insightful quantitative and qualitative results which will serve to confirm, along with previous research, the usefulness and validity of this type of input, not only for teaching pragmatics, but also for the development of tasks and activities with different pedagogical outcomes and students’ needs. As such, this volume is a useful resource for pragmaticians and discourse analysis scholars since its complete analysis of transcripts justifies the validity of audiovisual input and its different applications.
Storytelling and Drama
Author: Hugo Bowles
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027233403
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
How do characters tell stories in plays and for what dramatic purpose? This volume provides the first systematic analysis of narrative episodes in drama from an interactional perspective, applying sociolinguistic theories of narrative and insights from conversation analysis to literary dialogue. The aim of the book is to show how narration can become drama and how analysis of the way a character tells a story can be the key to understanding its role in the unfolding action. The book s interactional approach, which analyses the way in which the characteristic features of everyday conversational stories are used by dramatists to create literary effects, offers an additional tool for dramatic criticism. The book should be of interest to scholars and students of narrative research, conversation and discourse analysis, stylistics, dramatic discourse and theatre studies. Winner of 2012 Esse Book Award for Language and Linguistics"
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027233403
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
How do characters tell stories in plays and for what dramatic purpose? This volume provides the first systematic analysis of narrative episodes in drama from an interactional perspective, applying sociolinguistic theories of narrative and insights from conversation analysis to literary dialogue. The aim of the book is to show how narration can become drama and how analysis of the way a character tells a story can be the key to understanding its role in the unfolding action. The book s interactional approach, which analyses the way in which the characteristic features of everyday conversational stories are used by dramatists to create literary effects, offers an additional tool for dramatic criticism. The book should be of interest to scholars and students of narrative research, conversation and discourse analysis, stylistics, dramatic discourse and theatre studies. Winner of 2012 Esse Book Award for Language and Linguistics"
The Analysis of Play Construction and Dramatic Principle
Author: William Thompson Price
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Drama/Theatre/Performance
Author: Simon Shepherd
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134565291
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
This text explores the concept of these related terms and considers the complex relationship that exists between all three. This useful guidebook is an essential read for any student of literature, drama, theatre and performance studies.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134565291
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
This text explores the concept of these related terms and considers the complex relationship that exists between all three. This useful guidebook is an essential read for any student of literature, drama, theatre and performance studies.
How to Write Book Reports
Author: Walter James Miller
Publisher: Arco
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
A guide to reading and writing critically, to produce a book report.
Publisher: Arco
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
A guide to reading and writing critically, to produce a book report.