This is an introduction to the drama, singling out and discussing
its various elements, with detailed and generous quotation from
masterpieces. Styan emphasizes that plays are meant to be judged in
performance, not in the study, and that the play is something
created by a co-operation of author, actor, producer and audience.
The actor is doing something for the author's words; he is making
the play work; and so is the spectator as he responds to the art of
the actor, the producer and the playwright. It is a unique
relationship, and the play in performance must be judged by
'theatrical' standards as well as literary ones. Styan begins with
the elements of a dramatic text and the way they are built
together. For every aspect - words, movement, tempo - and for
larger considerations, such as verse-drama, convention,
'character', and audience-participation, Styan provides close
analyses of excerpts from plays by Shakespeare, Ibsen, Chekhov,
Wilde, Shaw, Strindberg, Pirandello, Synge, Anouilh, Sartre, Eliot
and others. These detailed expositions give an insight into the
aims and techniques of the particular playwrights as well as into
the general themes. This is an ideal introduction to the art of the
theatre for the general reader and the student of literature.
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