Cardullo A Play Analysis

A Casebook on Modern Western Drama
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-94-6300-280-6
Verlag: Sense Publishers
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 206 Seiten, eBook

"Play Analysis: A Casebook on Modern Western Drama is a combined play-analysis textbook and course companion that contains twelve essays on major dramas from the modern European and American theaters: among them, Ghosts, The Ghost Sonata, The Doctor’s Dilemma, A Man’s a Man, The Homecoming, The Hairy Ape, The Front Page, Of Mice and Men, Our Town, The Glass Menagerie, and Death of a Salesman. Supplementing these essays are a Step-by-Step Approach to Play Analysis, a Glossary of Dramatic Terms, Study Guides, Topics for Writing and Discussion, and bibliographies.Written with college students in mind (and possibly also advanced high school students), these critical essays cover some of the central plays treated in courses on modern Euro-American drama and will provide students with practical models to help them improve their own writing and analytical skills. The author is a “close reader” committed to a detailed yet objective examination of the structure, style, imagery, and language of a play. Moreover, he is concerned chiefly with dramatic analysis that can be of benefit not only to playreaders and theatergoers, but also to directors, designers, and even actors—that is, with analysis 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 theater practitioner could fruitfully quarrel."

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cardullo, R. J.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; A Step-By-Step Approach to Play Analysis; Plot and Action, or Form and Structure; The Form that ‘Can Longer Paint’: Ibsen’s Ghosts and Osvald; Life in the Foreground: Dramatic Method in Pinter’s The Homecoming; Character and Role; On the Road to Tragedy: George Milton’s Agon in Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men; Death of a Salesman, Life of a Jew: Ethnicity, Business, and the Character of Willy Loman; Style and Genre; The Doctored Dilemma: Shaw, The Doctor’s Dilemma, and Modern Tragedy; O’Neill’s The Hairy Ape in Relation to Greek Tragedy, Italian Futurism, and Divine Comedy; Language, Symbol, and Allusion; The Business of Art and the Art of Business: W. S. Gilbert’s Engaged, Revisited; The Blue Rose of St. Louis: Laura, Romanticism and Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie; Theme, Thesis, Thought, or Idea; August Strindberg, The Ghost Sonata, and the Making of Modern Drama; The Front Page, Farce, and American Comedy: A Reconsideration; Re-Evaluation and Influence; A World in Transition: A Study of Brecht’s A Man’s a Man; ‘Nice Town, Y’know What I Mean?’: Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, Deconstructed; Bibliographical Resources; Glossary of Dramatic Terms; Study Guides; Topics for Writing and Discussion; Index.