Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xix, 339 pages)
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digital, PDF file(s)
ISBN:
9780511553998
Series Statement:
European studies in English literature
Uniform Title:
Drama
Content:
Manfred Pfister's book is the first to provide a coherent and comprehensive framework for the analysis of plays in all their dramatic and theatrical dimensions. The materical on which his analysis is based covers all genres and periods of drama, from Greek tragedy and comedy to the contemporary theatre, with the plays of Shakespeare providing a special focus. His approach is not historical but systematic, combining more abstract categorisations with detailed and concrete interpretations of specific sample texts. An extensive international bibliography of relevant theatre and drama studies further enhances the practical value of the book
Content:
Drama and the dramatic: A critical summary of existing theories -- Dramatic speech situation and dialogue -- Drama as a multimedial form of presentation -- Drama in the context of of public performance activities -- Drama and the theatre: Literary text and stage-enactment -- Dramatic text and theatre design -- Drama and film: some observations -- Theatre as a social institution -- The dramatic text and the audience -- Sending and receiving information: Information in the internal and external communication systems -- Advance information and the audience's horizon of expectations -- The interrelationship of verbal and non-verbal information -- Levels of awareness in the dramatic figures and the audience -- The perspective structure of dramatic texts -- Epic communication structure in drama -- Successiveness and the transmission of information -- Verbal communication: Dramatic language and ordinary language -- The polyfunctionality of dramatic language -- Verbal communication and action -- Verbal communication and dramatic figure -- Monological speech -- Dialogical speech -- Dramatis personae and dramatic figure: The interdependence of plot and figure -- The status of dramatic figures -- Dramatis personae, configuration and figure constellation -- Figure conception and characterisation -- Story and plot: Story, plot and situation -- Presenting the story -- The combination of sequences -- Segmentation and composition -- Structures of time and space: The reality and fictionality of time and space in drama -- Open and closed structures of time and space -- The structure and presentation of space -- The structure and presentation of time
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521320603
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521423830
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9780521320603
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511553998
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