Studying Plays

Now in its 4th edition, this is an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the critical study of drama. Using familiar examples of classic and contemporary works such as Shakespeare''s King Lear , Ibsen''s A Doll''s House and Timberlake Wertenbaker''s Our Country''s Good , the book explores the essential elements of play texts, from character, dialogue and plot to theatrical space. With more in depth guidance on how to study plays in and as performance, both live and in recordings available online, the 4th edition of Studying Plays now includes: new examples throughout the book drawn from a range of 21st-century plays by established and emergent writers for diverse theatres and companies new explorations of how plays structure and engage audience response a complete new section on the analysis of theatre of witness and testimony; monodrama; and postdramatic texts.>

About the author

Mick Wallis is Professor of Performance and Culture at the University of Leeds.SIMON SHEPHERD is Professor of Theatre and Deputy Principal (Academic) at the Central School of Speech and Drama, UK.

Product details

• Authors: Simon Shepherd, Simon (The Central School of Speech and Drama Shepherd, Shepherd Simon, Mick Wallis, Mick Shepherd Wallis
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2018
• EAN: 9781350007338
• ISBN: 978-1-350-00733-8
• No. of pages: 248
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; DRAMA / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism, Theatre Studies, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literary studies: plays and playwrights