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The English Stage: A History of Drama and Performance tells the story of the drama through its many changes in style and convention from medieval times to the present day. With a wide sweep of coverage, John Styan analyses the key features of staging, including early street theatre and public performance, the evolution of the playhouse and the private space and the pairing of theory and stagecraft in the works of modern dramatists. He focuses on the conventions by which a playwright, his actors and their audience create the phenomenon of theatre and the way such conventions have changed over time. Styan is among a small number of influential scholars who have developed performance criticism and theatre history from their origins in literary studies into an independent and respected field. From the vantage point of a lifetime's study he examines and illustrates the multitude of factors which have brought and continue to bring plays to life.
English literature --- Theatrical science --- anno 1500-1799 --- anno 1800-1999 --- Great Britain --- Theater --- Théâtre --- History --- Production and direction --- Histoire --- Production et réalisation --- History. --- Théâtre --- Production et réalisation --- Dramatics --- Histrionics --- Professional theater --- Stage --- Theatre --- Performing arts --- Acting --- Actors --- Production and direction&delete&
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For a full understanding of any text, careful consideration must be given to its life in performance. In this rewarding study of four of Chekhov's major plays - Uncle Vanya, The Seagull, The Cherry Orchard and Three Sisters - J. L. Styan demonstrates the development of Chekhov's skills as a dramatist and discusses stage action, portrayal of character, differing twentieth-century productions and the audience reactions they evoked.
Chekhov, Anton P. --- Russian drama --- History and criticism --- Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, --- Dramatic works --- 82-2(47) --- -Russian literature --- Toneel. Drama--Rusland. Sovjet-Unie --- Tsjechov, Anton --- Dramatic works. --- History and criticism. --- Chechov, Anton Pavlovič, --- Criticism and interpretation --- -Toneel. Drama--Rusland. Sovjet-Unie --- 82-2(47) Toneel. Drama--Rusland. Sovjet-Unie --- Tsjechow, Anton P. --- Čechov, Anton Pavlovič --- Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich --- Tchekhov, Anton --- Tchekhov, Antone --- Tschechow, Anton --- -82-2(47) Toneel. Drama--Rusland. Sovjet-Unie --- Чехов, Антон Павлович, --- Chehov, Anton, --- Chekov, Anton, --- Tschechow, Anton Pawlowits, --- Tchekhov, Anton, --- Czechow, Antoni, --- Tsjechov, Anton, --- Csehov, Anton Pavlovics, --- Cecov, Anton, --- Čechov, Anton Pavlovič, --- Chekhonte, A., --- Chʻi-ho-fu, --- Tjechov, Anton Pavlovitj, --- Cehov, Anton Pavlović, --- Tchekoff, Anton, --- Čexov, Anton, --- Чехов, А. П. --- Chekhov, A. P. --- Cehov, Anton Pavlovici, --- Chʻi-ho-fu, An-tung, --- Chéjov, Antón, --- Чехов, А. --- Chekhov, A. --- Chʻi-kʻo-fu, --- Tshīkūf, --- Tshīkūf, Anṭūn, --- Tšehov, A. P., --- Ts'ekhov, --- Ts'ekhov, Anṭon P., --- Tchekov, A. P., --- Tsjekhov, Anton, --- Cekhava, Enṭana, --- Čechov, A. P., --- Cekhovha, Ayāṇṭan, --- Богемский, А., --- Bogemskiĭ, A., --- Ts'ekhov, A. P., --- Tjekhov, Anton, --- טשחוב, אנטון פװלובוץ׳, --- טשעבאוו, אנטאן, --- טשעחאוו, אנטאן, --- טשעחאוו, א. --- טשעכאָװ, אנטאָן --- טשעכאוו, אנטאן --- טשעכאוו, אנטאן פּאוולאוויטש, --- טשעכאוו, אנטאן, --- טשעכאוו, א. --- טשעכאוו, א. פ. --- טשעכאוו, א. פ., --- טשעכאוו, א., --- טשעכאװ, אנטאן, --- טשעכאװ, א. --- טשעכאװ, א.פ --- טשעכאװ, א.פ., --- צ׳חוב, אנטון --- צ׳חוב, אנטון, --- צ׳חוב, א. פ. --- צ׳יחוב, א. פ. --- צ׳יחוב, א. פ., --- צ׳כוב --- צ׳כוב, אנטוון --- צ׳כוב, אנטון --- צ׳כוב, אנטון פבלוביץ׳ --- צ׳כוב, אנטון פ. --- צ׳כוב, אנתון פאבלוביץ, --- צ׳כוב, א.פ, --- צ'כוב, אנטון, --- שטעכאװ, א. פ. --- چخڤ، انتن پڤلڤچ, --- 契珂夫, --- Tsechōph, Anton, --- Cīk̲h̲auf, Antūn --- Antūn Cīk̲h̲auf --- Cīk̲h̲auf, Antūn, --- Antūn Cīk̲h̲auf, --- Chikhūf, Āntuvān, --- Chikhūf, Āntwān, --- چخوف، آنتوان --- チェーホフ, アントーン・パーヴロヴィチ --- 체호프, 안톤 --- Чехов, Антон Павлович --- 契诃夫 --- چیخوف --- Russian drama - 19th century - History and criticism --- Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, - 1860-1904 - Dramatic works --- Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, - 1860-1904 - Criticism and interpretation --- Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, - 1860-1904
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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.
Theatrical science --- Drama --- Theater --- Theater audiences --- 792.028 --- 792 --- Theateropvoering. Theatervoorstelling --- Theater. Theaterwetenschap. Toneel --- 792 Theater. Theaterwetenschap. Toneel --- 792.028 Theateropvoering. Theatervoorstelling --- 792 Theatre. Stagecraft. Dramatic performances --- Theatre. Stagecraft. Dramatic performances --- Drama. --- Theater. --- Theater audiences. --- Audiences, Theater --- Theatergoers --- Performing arts --- Theater attendance --- Dramatics --- Histrionics --- Professional theater --- Stage --- Theatre --- Acting --- Actors --- Drama, Modern --- Dramas --- Dramatic works --- Plays --- Playscripts --- Literature --- Dialogue --- Audiences --- Philosophy --- Realisation et direction
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Much of twentieth-century drama defies the traditional pigeon-holes of tragedy and comedy: the heroes are not straightforwardly heroic; the subject-matter seems at some times grimly realistic and at others nearer to pure fantasy. Professor Styan explains and illuminates the nature of this dark, paradoxical comedy. He reminds us, first, that this is not a purely modern phenomenon: many great plays of the past have similarly defied classification and have called for an equally vacillating response from their audience. But nonetheless this dramatic genre has had its clearest expression in the last sixty years: we are shown in detail how its techniques have developed from Ibsen and Chekhov to Pirandello, Brecht and contemporary playwrights such as Ionesco, Beckett, Tennessee Williams and Pinter. The author brings us to realize that the playwright, by creating complex tensions in the action of the play between the actor and the audience and within the individual spectator, is able to explore new areas of human feeling and response. In this second edition of The Dark Comedy Professor Styan has brought the book up to date in relation to recent plays and theatrical developments. He has modified some earlier judgements and added detailed analyses of scenes from Brecht's Mother Courage and from Beckett's Waiting for Godot. Anyone who takes an intelligent interest in theatre-going will find profit and stimulus in this book. It covers a wide range of subject-matter; but its underlying theme is clear, forceful and unified.
Drama --- Tragicomedy --- Théâtre (Genre littéraire) --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- 792.036 --- -Tragicomedy --- -Comedy --- Tragedy --- Drama, Modern --- Plays --- Stage --- Literature --- Acting --- Dialogue --- Modern theater --- Philosophy --- History and criticism. --- -Modern theater --- 792.036 Modern theater --- -792.036 Modern theater --- Théâtre (Genre littéraire)
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