Drama & the Dramatic

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.

About the author

S. W. Dawson

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: S. W. (Edd Dawson, S W Dawson, Dawson S. W., S. W. Dawson
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 31.01.2019
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Fiction > Poetry, drama
• EAN: 9781138229600
• ISBN: 978-1-138-22960-0
• Pages: 110
• Series: The Critical Idiom Reissued > 10; The Critical Idiom Reissued
• Subjects: DRAMA / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare, DRAMA / Shakespeare, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / General, Theatre Studies, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literature: history and criticism, Literary Criticism, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, character analysis, dramatic structure, English literature curriculum, modern literary theory, dramatic language analysis