Dramaturgy of Form

Dramaturgy of Form
Author: Kasia Lech
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 110
Release: 2021-03-01
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0429535678

Dramaturgy of Form examines verse in twenty-first-century theatre practice across different languages, cultures, and media. Through interdisciplinary engagement, Kasia Lech offers a new method for verse analysis in the performance context. The book traces the dramaturgical operation of verse in new writings, musicals, devised performances, multilingual dramas, Hip Hop theatre, films, digital projects, and gig theatre, as well as translations and adaptations of classics and new theatre forms created by Irish, Spanish, Nigerian, Polish, American, Canadian, Australian, British, Russian, and multinational artists. Their verse dramaturgies explore timely issues such as global identities, agency and precarity, global and local politics, and generational and class stories. The development of dramaturgy is discussed with the focus turning to the new stylized approach to theatre, whose arrival Hans-Thies Lehmann foretold in his Postdramatic Theatre, documenting a turning point for contemporary Western theatre. Serving theatre-makers, scholars, and students working with classical and contemporary verse and poetry in performance contexts; practitioners and academics of aural and oral dramaturgies; voice and verse-speaking coaches; and actors seeking the creative opportunities that verse offers, Dramaturgy of Form reveals verse as a tool for innovation and transformation that is at the forefront of contemporary practices and experiences.

The Process of Drama

The Process of Drama
Author: John O'Toole
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2003-09-02
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1134891008

An original and invaluable model of the elements of drama in context. O'Toole demonstrates how dramatic meaning emerges, shaped by its multiple contexts, and illuminates the importance of all participants to the dramatic process.

Form and Meaning in Drama

Form and Meaning in Drama
Author: Humphrey Davy Findley Kitto
Publisher:
Total Pages: 341
Release: 1977
Genre: Greek drama (Tragedy)
ISBN:

Dictionary of the Theatre

Dictionary of the Theatre
Author: Patrice Pavis
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 492
Release: 1998-01-01
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780802081636

An encyclopedic dictionary of technical and theoretical terms, the book covers all aspects of a semiotic approach to the theatre, with cross-referenced alphabetical entries ranging from absurd to word scenery.

Form and Meaning in Drama

Form and Meaning in Drama
Author: H. D. F. Kitto
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2014-02-03
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1317814371

Analysing six Greek tragedies - the Orestes triology, Ajax, Antigone and Philoctetes - and Hamlet, this book also contains a chapter on the Greek and the Elizabethan dramatic forms and one on religious drama. This is an important work from an author respected for a constructive and sensitive quality of criticism.

Drama and Reading for Meaning Ages 4-11

Drama and Reading for Meaning Ages 4-11
Author: Larraine S. Harrison
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2022-04-19
Genre: Education
ISBN: 100057248X

Drama and Reading for Meaning Ages 4-11 contains over 40 creative drama ideas to help develop reading for meaning in the primary school. The wide range of clearly explained, structured and engaging drama activities will appeal to all primary practitioners who wish to develop more creative approaches to the teaching of reading. The activities show how drama can develop some of the skills associated with reading for meaning such as empathising with characters’ feelings, exploring settings and themes and making inferences based on evidence. The step-by-step activities range from familiar classroom drama strategies such as freeze-frames and hot-seating to less well-known approaches involving whole class drama experiences. The book also serves as an introduction to using drama as a learning medium, with advice on how to set the ground rules and clear explanations of the drama strategies. Each chapter has a detailed explanation of what to do, followed by a number of examples linked to quality texts, including poetry and non-fiction. From bringing books to life in reception and Years 1 and 2, to peeling back the layers of meanings in Years 3 to 6, all the drama activities in this book are designed to improve reading for meaning and help motivate children to read for pleasure, making this an essential resource for all primary settings.

Life Forms and Meaning Structure

Life Forms and Meaning Structure
Author: Alfred Schutz
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2013-10-08
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1134479174

This volume contains a translation of four early manuscripts by Alfred Schutz, unpublished at the time, written between 1924 and 1928. The publication of these four essays adds much to our knowledge and appreciation of the wide range of Schutz’s phenomenological and sociological interests. Originally published in 1987. The essays consist of: a challenging presentation of a phenomenology of cognition and a treatment of Bergson’s conceptions of images, duration, space time and memory; a discussion of the meanings connected with the grammatical forms of language in general; a consideration of the relation between meaning-contents and literary forms in poetry, literary prose narration and dramatic presentation; and an examination of resemblances and differences in the inner forms and characteristics of the major theatrical art forms.

A Study of Sophoclean Drama

A Study of Sophoclean Drama
Author: Gordon MacDonald Kirkwood
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 332
Release: 1994
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780801482410

A study in the dramatic methods of Sophocles, especially in the revelation of character, as the primary essence of Sophocles' art.