The Drama Dictionary

Hodgson, Terry

ISBN 10: 0941533409 / ISBN 13: 9780941533409

Published by Dee Publisher, Ivan R., 1998

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Drama Dictionary
• Publisher: Dee Publisher, Ivan R.
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0941533409
• ISBN 13: 9780941533409
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

This comprehensive reference work is designed to be a single source to which readers may turn for guidance on dramatic theory and practice. It therefore concentrates on critical and technical concepts and terms rather than on theatre history or biography.
The book contains some 1300 entries varying in length from a few words to several hundred. The terms included relate to the forms of drama (e.g. epic, mime, farce, comedy of manners, tragi-comedy, etc.); to different kinds of stage (thrust, picture-frame, arena, etc.); to technical stage terms (tabs, proscenium arch, sightlines, etc.); to acting terms, including colloquialisms (fluff, corpse-as well as duologue, soliloquy, cross below, upstage, etc.) They also include the critical terms of important theoreticians (e.g. superobjective, magic 'if', throughline, alienation, montage) and the obvious foreign terms (hamartia, peripeteia, etc.).
Dramatic movements and styles are described (naturalism, expressionism, neo-classical, Jacobean, etc.), together with terms relating to costume (e.g. buskins), character types (of, say, the Commedia dell'Arte) and dramatic structure (climax, curtain, pace and tempo, episode, chorus, etc.).
The entries are fully cross-referenced, and are supported by ample suggestions for further reading and a selection of line drawings illustrating key points in the text.

About the Author

Terry Hodgson is Lecturer in Literature and Drama at the Centre for Continuing Education, University of Sussex. He convenes undergraduate and postgraduate courses in the English major and runs extramural drama, fiction and poetry classes, including many drama workshops with professional actors and directors.