Understanding Drama: A Student Companion:: A Student Companion - Softcover

Cardullo, R J

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9355720262 ISBN 13: 9789355720269

Publisher: Dhanesh Kumar Jain, 2022

Synopsis

Understanding Drama contains 70 short essays that analyse a number of geographically diverse, historically significant plays-among them Oedipus Tyrannos, King Lear, Tartuffe, Long Day's Journey into Night, Hedda Gabler, Androcles and the Lion, Our Town, A Streetcar Named Desire, Death of a Salesman, Riders to the Sea, Old Times, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Glengarry Glen Ross, Buried Child, The Threepenny Opera, and Edward II. Supplementing these model essays are a Step-by-Step Approach to Play Analysis, a Glossary of Dramatic Terms, Study Guides, Topics for Writing and Discussion, Bibliographical Resources, and a comprehensive Index. Written with students in mind, these critical essays cover many important plays included in most dramatic literature courses and will provide students with practical models to help them improve their own writing and analytical skills. Presenting a detailed yet objective examination of the structure, style, imagery, and language of the plays, this textbook also offers analyses of character, action, dialogue, and setting that can be translated into concepts for theatrical production-or that can at least provide the kind of understanding of a play with which a theatre practitioner could fruitfully quarrel.

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About the Author

R.J. Cardullo taught for over four decades at the University of Michigan, Colgate, and New York University, as well as outside the United States. His essays and reviews have appeared in such journals as New Theatre Quarterly, Modern Drama, Studies in Theatre and Performance, and the Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism. Cardullo is the author, editor or translator of a number of books, including Theater of the AvantGarde, 1890-1950; What Is Dramaturgy?;The Crommelynck Mystery etc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Dhanesh Kumar Jain
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9355720262
• ISBN 13: 9789355720269
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 366