How plays work

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Glavni autor: Meisel, Martin (-)
Vrsta građe: Knjiga
Jezik: eng
Impresum: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
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  • 1. Introduction: The Art of Reading Plays 1 2. Beginnings 12 2.1. Defining the stage/Enlisting the audience 13 2.2. Setting the defaults/Breaking the rules 17 2.3. Modulations 19 2.4. Puzzle pictures 21 2.5. Demontage 22 2.6. Theatre unveiled 26 2.7. Worlds within 32 3. Seeing and Hearing 43 3.1. Sound that is not Speech 46 3.2. Indirect seeing 49 3.3. Visible speech 51 3.4. Masks and markings 56 3.5. Dress code 58 3.6. The object in view 63 3.7. Movement and configuration 66 4. The Uses of Place 74 4.1. Statics 75 4.2. Dynamics 77 4.3. Place-Time 85 5. The Role of the Audience 96 5.1. Audience enactments 99 5.2. Illicit intercourse 105 5.3. Audience surrogates 110 5.4. Audience expectations 112 5.5. Outreach 121 6. The Shape of the Action 129 6.1. One thing after another 132 6.2. Shaping forces 138 6.3. Penetrative progressions 142 6.4. Figures of the whole 147 7. The Action ofWords 155 7.1. Expressing, impelling, revealing 160 7.2. Lapsus linguae 180 8. ReadingMeanings 191 8.1. Thematics 193 8.2. Parable and `conceit' 201 8.3. Making a case 207 8.4. Naturalized symbolism 211 8.5. Where it all comes together (perhaps) 216 9. Primal Attractions 221 9.1. Mimesis and magic 222 9.2. The pleasure of privileged witness 231 Notes 238 Bibliography 259 Index 267