Overview
- The book describes the methods and techniques of play analysis
- It provides numerous examples of such analysis from the history of modern Euro-American drama—unlike other play analysis texts, which detail the methods and techniques of play analysis but contain few (if any) actual play analyses in essay form
- The book was written with college students in mind
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Plot and Action, or Form and Structure
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Character and Role
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Style and Genre
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Language, Symbol, and Allusion
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Theme, Thesis, Thought, or Idea
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Re-Evaluation and Influence
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About this book
Written with college students in mind (and possibly also advanced high school students), these critical essays cover some of the central plays treated in courses on modern Euro-American drama and will provide students with practical models to help them improve their own 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. Moreover, he is concerned chiefly with dramatic analysis that can be of benefit not only to playreaders and theatergoers, but also to directors, designers, and even actors—that is, with analysis of character, action, dialogue, and setting that can be translated into concepts for theatrical production, or that can at least provide the kind of understanding of a play with which a theater practitioner could fruitfully quarrel."
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Play Analysis
Book Subtitle: A Casebook on Modern Western Drama
Authors: R. J. Cardullo
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-280-6
Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature B.V. 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-94-6300-280-6Published: 28 October 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 206
Topics: Education, general