A student guide to play analysis /

Main Author: Rush, David, 1940-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, ©2005.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : how to look at a play
  • What is a play?
  • Plot : the beginning
  • Plot : the middle, the ending, and other matters
  • Characters
  • Language
  • Classic tragedy
  • Classic comedy
  • Melodrama
  • Farce
  • Alternate genres
  • Realism
  • Symbolism
  • Expressionism
  • Theater of the absurd
  • Epic theater
  • Postmodernism.