1st Edition

Drama & the Dramatic

By S. W. Dawson Copyright 1970
114 Pages
by Routledge

114 Pages
by Routledge

114 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1970, this book explores drama as literature and provides critical overviews of different aspects of drama and the dramatic. It first asks what a play is, before going on to examine dramatic language, action and tension, dramatic irony, characters and drama’s relationship with modern criticism and the novel. This book will be a valuable resource to those studying drama and... Read more

General Editor’s Preface; Preface; 1. Drama, Theatre and Reality 2. Language and Situation 3. Action and Tension 4. Dramatic Irony 5. Character and Idea 6. ‘Presentment’: Modern Criticism and the Dramatic 7. Drama and the Novel; Note A: Decorum; Note B: Destiny; Note C: Action, Plot and Structure; Note D: Hazlitt and Keats; Note E: Collaboration; Bibliography; Index

Biography

S. W. Dawson