[PDF] Drama The Dramatic eBook

Author : S. W. Dawson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 37,81 MB
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 1315388693

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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.

Author : Hans-Thies Lehmann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 33,67 MB
Release : 2016-05-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1317276280

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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.

Author : Laura Estill
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 28,61 MB
Release : 2015-01-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1611495156

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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.

Author : Christine Schwanecke
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 45,37 MB
Release : 2022-01-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3110724146

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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.

Author : Manfred Pfister
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 23,32 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521423830

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Manfred Pfister's book is the first to provide a coherent comprehensive framework for the analysis of plays in all their dramatic and theatrical dimensions. The material on which his analysis is based covers all genres and periods. His approach is systematic rather than historical, combining more abstract categorisations with detailed interpretations of sample texts.

Author : Elisabeth Tova Bailey
Publisher : Algonquin Books
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 27,17 MB
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1565126068

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Bedridden and suffering from a neurological disorder, the author recounts the profound effect on her life caused by a gift of a snail in a potted plant and shares the lessons learned from her new companion about her the meaning of her life and the life of the small creature.