How plays work : reading and performance / Martin Meisel.
Martin Meisel's book looks at how we read plays on the page. Cultivated in tone and jargon-free, his incisive account is illuminated by dozens of judiciously chosen examples from western drama - from classical Greek dramatists to contemporary playwrights, both canonical and relatively obscure.
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| Format: | Government Document eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2007.
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Table of Contents:
- Beginnings
- Seeing and hearing
- The uses of place
- The role of the audience
- The shape of the action
- The action of words
- Reading meanings
- Primal attractions.