Drama & the Dramatic
Title | Drama & the Dramatic PDF eBook |
Author | S. W. Dawson |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Pages | 115 |
Release | 2017-07-06 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1315388693 |
First published in 1970, this book explores drama as literature and provides critical overviews of different aspects of drama and the dramatic. It first asks what a play is, before going on to examine dramatic language, action and tension, dramatic irony, characters and drama’s relationship with modern criticism and the novel. This book will be a valuable resource to those studying drama and English literature.
Tragedy and Dramatic Theatre
Title | Tragedy and Dramatic Theatre PDF eBook |
Author | Hans-Thies Lehmann |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 466 |
Release | 2016-05-05 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1317276280 |
This comprehensive, authoritative account of tragedy is the culmination of Hans-Thies Lehmann’s groundbreaking contributions to theatre and performance scholarship. It is a major milestone in our understanding of this core foundation of the dramatic arts. From the philosophical roots and theories of tragedy, through its inextricable relationship with drama, to its impact upon post-dramatic forms, this is the definitive work in its field. Lehmann plots a course through the history of dramatic thought, taking in Aristotle, Plato, Seneca, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Lacan, Shakespeare, Schiller, Holderlin, Wagner, Maeterlinck, Yeats, Brecht, Kantor, Heiner Müller and Sarah Kane.
Dramatic Extracts in Seventeenth-Century English Manuscripts
Title | Dramatic Extracts in Seventeenth-Century English Manuscripts PDF eBook |
Author | Laura Estill |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 285 |
Release | 2015-01-21 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1611495156 |
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.
A Narratology of Drama
Title | A Narratology of Drama PDF eBook |
Author | Christine Schwanecke |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 446 |
Release | 2022-01-19 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 3110724146 |
This volume argues against Gérard Genette’s theory that there is an “insurmountable opposition” between drama and narrative and shows that the two forms of storytelling have been productively intertwined throughout literary history. Building on the idea that plays often incorporate elements from other genres, especially narrative ones, the present study theorises drama as a fundamentally narrative genre. Guided by the question of how drama tells stories, the first part of the study delineates the general characteristics of dramatic narration and zooms in on the use of narrative forms in drama. The second part proposes a history of dramatic storytelling from the Renaissance to the twenty-first century that transcends conventional genre boundaries. Close readings of exemplary British plays provide an overview of the dominant narrative modes in each period and point to their impact in the broader cultural and historical context of the plays. Finally, the volume argues that throughout history, highly narrative plays have had a performative power that reached well beyond the stage: dramatic storytelling not only reflects socio-political realities, but also largely shapes them.
Dramatic Literacy
Title | Dramatic Literacy PDF eBook |
Author | J. Lea Smith |
Publisher | Drama |
Pages | 152 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Education |
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By integrating the dramatization of children's literature into content studies, we allow students to show their interpretation of the characters, plot, and setting.
Drama and the Dramatic
Title | Drama and the Dramatic PDF eBook |
Author | S. W. Dawson |
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Release | 1970 |
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Freytag's Technique of the Drama
Title | Freytag's Technique of the Drama PDF eBook |
Author | Gustav Freytag |
Publisher | |
Pages | 444 |
Release | 1908 |
Genre | Drama |
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