How plays work
by Edgar, David
David Edgar examines the mechanisms and techniques which dramatists throughout the ages have employed to structure their plays and to express their meaning. Written for playwrights and playgoers alike, Edgar's analysis starts with the building blocks of whole plays - plot, character-creation, genre and structure - and moves on to scenes and devices. He shows how plays share a common architecture without which the uniqueness of their authors' vision would be invisible. -- Back cover.
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- Full title :How plays work / David Edgar.
Summary
David Edgar examines the mechanisms and techniques which dramatists throughout the ages have employed to structure their plays and to express their meaning. Written for playwrights and playgoers alike, Edgar's analysis starts with the building blocks of whole plays - plot, character-creation, genre and structure - and moves on to scenes and devices. He shows how plays share a common architecture without which the uniqueness of their authors' vision would be invisible. -- Back cover.
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- Publication Date:©2009.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Nick Hern Books
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2009.
The Physical Object
- Description:xvi, 220 pages ; : 22 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781854593719, 1854593714
- oclc:ocn428139159
- LC Classification:PN1661
- Dewey Decimal:808.2
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