The Language of Drama Critical Theory and Practice
The Language of Drama is about the critical strategies that can be used to understand the dynamic processes of writing, reading, dramaturgy, rehearsal, production and reception of drama performance in both the classroom and the professional theatre. It dr
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THELANGUAGEOFLITERATURE General Editor: N. F. Blake Professor of English Language and Linguistics. University of Sheffield Published titles An Introduction to the Language of Literature The Language of Shakespeare The Language of Chaucer The Language ofWordsworth and Coleridge The Language of Irish Literature The Language of D. H. Lawrence The Language ofThomas Hardy The Language of Drama The Language of Jane Austen The Language ofthe Metaphysical Poets The Language ofJames Joyce The Language ofTwentieth-Century Poetry The Language ofGeorge Orwell The Language ofOld and Middle English Poetry
N. F. Blake N. F. Blake David Bumley Frances Austin LoretoTodd Allan Ingram Raymond Chapman David Birch Myra Stokes Frances Austin Katie Wales Lesley Jeffries Roger Fowler G. A. Lester
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THE LANGUAGE OF DRAMA Critical Theory and Practice David Birch
© David lan Birch 1991
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Contents Acknowledgements
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Foreword
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1 Drama Praxis Authorship Literature Multiple Voices Language and Action Performing Meanings Interpretation 2
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Making Sense
Realities and Fictions Ideology Illusion Order 3
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Conflict Dialogism Goals Co-operation Struggle
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Control
Classifications Word-Shock Defamiliarisation Domination 5
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Roles
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Subjectivity Stereotypes 6 Cultural Power Gender Carnival and Masks Writing Back
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