The Drama Handbook A Guide to Reading Plays

Description

A compact, wide-ranging, and accessible guide to reading plays, The Drama Handbook stresses the importance of understanding performance conventions and production processes through history, and offers clearly defined and presented critical vocabularies.

Introduces the technical and critical vocabulary to inform students’ play reading and criticism
Introduces major playwrights and dramatic genres
An ideal revision text – includes a section on exam technique, and sample student essays
Emphasises drama in performance