Research Catalog

Title

An introduction to drama / G.B. Tennyson.

Author

Tennyson, G. B.

Publication

• New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1967]
• ©1967.

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Details

Description

viii, 134 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

This pamphlet acts as both an introduction to drama for beginner students and as a reference book for more advanced students. The focus is on the play, as blueprint for production and as literary work -- Back cover.

Subject

• Drama
• Theater
• Drama
• plays (performing arts compositions)
• theater (discipline)
• 24.02 theory and aesthetics of theatre
• Theaterwetenschap

Genre/Form

• Drama.
• Théâtre.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 108-111.

Contents

The nature of the drama. Action ; Imitation ; The ingredients of the drama ; Why drama? -- Plot and structure. The nature of plot ; Plot structure -- The language of plays. Stage directions ; Dialogue ; Conventions of dialogue ; Drama in verse ; Drama in prose -- Character. Character revelation ; Credibility and motivation ; Type characters ; Individuals ; Character analysis -- Types of plays. Tragedy ; Melodrama ; Comedy ; Farce ; Types and no types -- Plays in performance. Classical theaters ; The Elizabethan playhouse ; The Proscenium Arch stage ; The arena stage ; Interactions -- The reader and the play. Reading the play ; Analysis ; Aids in interpretation.

ISBN

• 0030608201
• 9780030608209

LCCN

67010599

OCLC

• ocm00242426
• 242426
• SCSB-580791

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library