| Description |
vi, 453 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm |
| Contents |
TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Some thoughts on playwriting / Thornton Wilder -- The conditions of dramatic art / Henri Gheon -- Problems of the theatre / Friedrich Duerrenmatt -- Poetics / Aristotle -- The primitive phase / Benjamin Hunningher -- The costumed player / Richard Southern -- Psychology and form / Kenneth Burke -- A metaphor for dramatic form / Marvin Rosenberg -- Myth and drama / Harold H. Watts -- Specific forms of drama / Northrop Frye -- Tragedy and melodrama: speculations on generic form / Robert B. Heilman -- Introduction to comedy / James L. Calderwood and Harold E. Toliver -- Comedy and tragedy transposed / Ellen Douglass Leyburn -- The theatre of the absurd / Martin Esslin -- Rules of drama / Sir Philip Sidney -- Discourse on the three unities / Pierre Corneille -- An essay on dramatic poesy / John Dryden -- Preface to Shakespeare / Samuel Johnson -- Illusion / Arthur Koestler -- The timeless world of play / Tennessee Williams -- The dramatic illusion / Susanne Langer -- On the experimental theatre / Bertold Brecht -- Poetics / Aristotle -- The elements of drama: plot / Elder Olson -- Manipulating the characters / J.L. Styan -- Character change and the drama / Harold Rosenberg -- Dramatic dialogue / Allardyce Nicholl -- The nature of the problem / Moody E. Prior -- The functions of imagery in the drama / Una Ellis-Fermor -- The life of our design / Alan S. Downer -- Enactment / Eric Bentley -- On the nature of the theatre / Max Frisch |
| Analysis |
Drama |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Also issued online |
| SUBJECT |
Everyman's library. Drama. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2007102693
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| Subject |
Drama -- History and criticism.
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Drama.
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| Author |
Calderwood, James L.
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Toliver, Harold E.
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| LC no. |
68019763 |
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