How to Read a Play

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Grove Press, 1999 - 113 pàgines
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How to Read a Play is an introductory guide to the art of translating the printed page of a play or screenplay into dramatic mental images; it has been a classic among actors, directors, and writers for the past twenty years. Now fully updated and revised, the book devotes a chapter exclusively to screenplays, noting the intrinsic differences between a screenplay and a playscript and thus bringing this invaluable classic up to date.

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Continguts

The reader and the medium
13
Sound effects
19
Momentum and suspense
24
Not by words alone
31
Costume and identity
40
Identity and character
50
Irony and ambiguity
57
Mental theater
62
Silence
66
Meaning and experience
82
Photogenic action
97
Playreading as a pleasure
108
Key to extracts
111
Copyright

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Ronald Hayman was born in Bournemouth and grew up in a hotel there. After studying English at St Paul's and Trinity Hall in Cambridge, Hayman went to drama school in London. While there, he began working as an actor in repertory theatre and in television. Hayman's first play, The End of an Uncle, was produced in 1959. In 1967, after directing plays by Genet, Goldoni, and Brecht at the Arts Theatre, Stratford East and Welwyn Garden City, Hayman started writing books and broadcasting. Then, in his book Hitler and Geli, Hayman explored the remarkable, yet relatively obscure, story of the affair between Adolf Hitler and his young niece Geli Raubal, who died under mysterious circumstances. Some of Hayman's other works include exposes on Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter and Arthur Miller, and biographies of Sylvia Plath, Jean-Paul Sartre, the Marquis de Sade, and Tennessee Williams.

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TítolHow to Read a Play
AutorRonald Hayman
Ediciórevisada
EditorGrove Press, 1999
ISBN080213629X, 9780802136299
Nre. de pàgines113 pàgines
  
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