A Play Analysis : A Casebook on Modern Western Drama / / by R. J. Cardullo.

• VerfasserIn: Cardullo, R. J.
• Place / Publishing House: Rotterdam : : SensePublishers :, Imprint: SensePublishers,, 2015.
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Edition: 1st ed. 2015.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (213 p.)
• Notes: Includes index.

"Play Analysis: A Casebook on Modern Western Drama is a combined play-analysis textbook and course companion that contains twelve essays on major dramas from the modern European and American theaters: among them, Ghosts, The Ghost Sonata, The Doctor’s Dilemma, A Man’s a Man, The Homecoming, The Hairy Ape, The Front Page, Of Mice and Men, Our Town, The Glass Menagerie, and Death of a Salesman. Supplementing these essays are a Step-by-Step Approach to Play Analysis, a Glossary of Dramatic Terms, Study Guides, Topics for Writing and Discussion, and bibliographies. Written with college students in mind (and possibly also advanced high school students), these critical essays cover some of the central plays treated in courses on modern Euro-American drama and will provide students with practical models to help them improve their own writing and analytical skills. The author is a “close reader” committed to a detailed yet objective examination of the structure, style, imagery, and language of a play. Moreover, he is concerned chiefly with dramatic analysis that can be of benefit not only to playreaders and theatergoers, but also to directors, designers, and even actors—that is, with analysis of character, action, dialogue, and setting that can be translated into concepts for theatrical production, or that can at least provide the kind of understanding of a play with which a theater practitioner could fruitfully quarrel.".

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / R. J. Cardullo -- Plot and Action, or Form and Structure / R. J. Cardullo -- The Form that ‘Can Longer Paint’ / R. J. Cardullo -- Life in the Foreground / R. J. Cardullo -- Character and Role / R. J. Cardullo -- On the Road to Tragedy / R. J. Cardullo -- Death of a Salesman, Life of a Jew / R. J. Cardullo -- Style and Genre / R. J. Cardullo -- The Doctored Dilemma / R. J. Cardullo -- O’Neill’s The Hairy Apein Relation to Greek Tragedy, Italian Futurism, and Divine Comedy / R. J. Cardullo -- Language, Symbol, and Allusion / R. J. Cardullo -- The Business of Art and the Art of Business / R. J. Cardullo -- The Blue Rose of St. Louis / R. J. Cardullo -- Theme, Thesis, Thought, or Idea / R. J. Cardullo -- August Strindberg, The Ghost Sonata, and the Making of Modern Drama / R. J. Cardullo -- The Front Page, Farce, and American Comedy / R. J. Cardullo -- Re-Evaluation and Influence / R. J. Cardullo -- A World in Transition / R. J. Cardullo -- ‘Nice Town, Y’know What I Mean?’ / R. J. Cardullo -- Bibliographical Resources / R. J. Cardullo -- Glossary of Dramatic Terms / R. J. Cardullo -- Study Guides / R. J. Cardullo -- Topics for Writing and Discussion / R. J. Cardullo -- Index / R. J. Cardullo.