The theory and analysis of drama
xix, 339 p. ; 24 cm.
9780521320603, 9780521423830, 0521320607, 052142383X
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Drama and the dramatic: A critical summary of existing theories
Dramatic speech situation and dialogue
Drama as a multimedial form of presentation
Drama in the context of of public performance activities
Drama and the theatre: Literary text and stage-enactment
Dramatic text and theatre design
Drama and film: some observations
Theatre as a social institution
The dramatic text and the audience
Sending and receiving information: Information in the internal and external communication systems
Advance information and the audience's horizon of expectations
The interrelationship of verbal and non-verbal information
Levels of awareness in the dramatic figures and the audience
The perspective structure of dramatic texts
Epic communication structure in drama
Successiveness and the transmission of information
Verbal communication: Dramatic language and ordinary language
The polyfunctionality of dramatic language
Verbal communication and action
Verbal communication and dramatic figure
Monological speech
Dialogical speech
Dramatis personae and dramatic figure: The interdependence of plot and figure
The status of dramatic figures
Dramatis personae, configuration and figure constellation
Figure conception and characterisation
Story and plot: Story, plot and situation
Presenting the story
The combination of sequences
Segmentation and composition
Structures of time and space: The reality and fictionality of time and space in drama
Open and closed structures of time and space
The structure and presentation of space
The structure and presentation of time