Performing Arts, General

Drama in Performance

Name: Drama in Performance
Author: Raymond Williams
ISBN: 9780335096589

by Raymond Williams

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Synopsis

A new edition of Williams' 1954 work, which pioneered a method of dramaturgical rather than literary-critical analysis of plays, locating dramatic texts in the conditions and conventions of their original performance and reading them to disclose their performance potentialities.

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Reprint of revised edition of 1968 with a new introduction and bibliography. Dramaturgical analysis of the works of key periods from the Greek to contemporary film. Distributed by Taylor & Francis. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)