Drama & the Dramatic

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-138-22960-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 114 Seiten, Format (B × H): 129 mm x 198 mm, Gewicht: 133 g

Reihe: The Critical Idiom Reissued

First published in 1970, this book explores drama as literature and provides critical overviews of different aspects of drama and the dramatic. It first asks what a play is, before going on to examine dramatic language, action and tension, dramatic irony, characters and drama’s relationship with modern criticism and the novel.

This book will be a valuable resource to those studying drama and English literature.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dawson, S. W.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

General Editor’s Preface; Preface; 1. Drama, Theatre and Reality 2. Language and Situation 3. Action and Tension 4. Dramatic Irony 5. Character and Idea 6. ‘Presentment’: Modern Criticism and the Dramatic 7. Drama and the Novel; Note A: Decorum; Note B: Destiny; Note C: Action, Plot and Structure; Note D: Hazlitt and Keats; Note E: Collaboration; Bibliography; Index

Über Autor(innen)

S. W. Dawson