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Drama Stage and Audience Hardback - 1975

by John L. Styan

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This book shows how a play 'works' in the theatre: how it generates life, meaning and excitement on the stage for the audience. It is self evident that a play must communicate or it is not a play at all. Professor Styan argues that, while communication in drama begins with the script, the value or power of a play must be tested upon an audience. In the theatre experience, it is not so much the elements of drama on the stage or the perceptions of the audience which are important, as the relationships between them. It follows that the study of drama is the study of how the stage compels its audience to be involved in its actual processes; it is a study of a particular social situation. Professor Styan discusses in detail the particular social situation, conditions of performance and physical playhouse in which a play thrives. There is a wealth of examples from all periods of Western drama. He especially deals with plays which make no pretence to 'realism', and much of the discussion turns upon the power and success of Shakespeare as a playwright. This book will appeal to students, actors and directors of drama, as well as the theatregoers. Professor Styan's insistence on criticism based on the theatrical experience will make this an important book for other drama critics.

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  • Title Drama Stage and Audience
  • Author John L. Styan
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 264
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press, West Nyack, New York, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 1975
  • ISBN 9780521205047 / 0521205042
  • Weight 0.94 lbs (0.43 kg)
  • Category Performing Arts
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 74076948
  • Dewey Decimal Code 792

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Drama, Stage, and Audience

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West Nyack, New York, U.S.A.: Cambridge Univ Pr, 1975. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Published in 1975 by Cambridge University Press in West Nyack, New York. Near fine hard back book with a very good dust jacket. Signed and inscribed by the author on the front flyleaf. All pages clean, crisp and unmarked. Clean boards. Dust jacket shows minor rubbing and bumping with small punctures/tears to spine edge and top front though all present; price clipped. Tight spine. Excellent copy. 256 pp. Ocatvo. Signed By Author.
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Cambridge University Press. Used - Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.
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