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How Plays Work: Reading and Performance - Hardcover

Meisel, Martin

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9780199215492: How Plays Work: Reading and Performance
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ISBN 10: 0199215499 ISBN 13: 9780199215492
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2007

Synopsis

Martin Meisel's engaging book looks at how we read play plays on the page. Cultivated in tone and jargon-free, his incisive account is illuminated by dozens of judiciously chosen examples from western drama - from classical Greek dramatists to contemporary playwrights, both canonical and relatively obscure. How Plays Work will appeal as much to the serious student of the theatre as to the playgoer who likes to read a play before seeing it performed.

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About the Author

Martin Meisel is the Brander Matthews Professor Emeritus of Dramatic Literature (the oldest such chair in America). He is the author of Shaw and the Nineteenth-Century Theater (Princeton and Oxford), Realizations: Narrative, Pictorial, and Theatrical Arts in Nineteenth-Century England (Princeton), as well as numerous essays and articles on drama and the visual arts. He has been the recipient of two Guggenheim Foundation Fellowships, an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, residential fellowships at the National Humanities Center, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (Edinburgh); and of awards from the American Philosophical Society and the Huntington Library among others. In 2003 he received the Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching at Columbia.

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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Publication date
2007
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0199215499
ISBN 13 
9780199215492
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
296
Rating
  • 3.75 out of 5 stars
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