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Key concepts in drama and performance / Kenneth Pickering.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pickering, Kenneth, author.
- Series:
- Palgrave key concepts
- Palgrave Key Concepts
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Performing arts--Dictionaries.
- Performing arts.
- Drama--Dictionaries.
- Drama.
- Acting.
- Theater--Dictionaries.
- Theater.
- Acting--Dictionaries.
- Drama--History and criticism--Dictionaries.
- Genre:
- Dictionaries.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xv, 292 pages).
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Basingstoke, Hampshire, England : Palgrave Macmillan, [2010]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- 1 Textual Concepts. Absurdism/Theatre of the Absurd
- Act
- Action
- Actor-generated text
- Allegory
- Anti-hero
- Aristotelian (or Neo-classical) unities 00 Autobiography
- Chronicle history play
- Climax
- Comedy
- Denouement
- Devising
- Dialogue
- Dramatic irony
- Dramaturg
- Dramaturgy/dramaturgy of the actor
- Episode
- Exposition
- Farce
- Flashback
- Hero
- Melodrama
- Monologue
- Montage
- Mystery Play (Mysteries)
- Passion Play
- Peripeteia
- Play within a play
- Plot
- Political drama
- Protagonist
- Scene
- Script
- Soliloquy
- Stage directions
- Structure
- Sub-plot
- Subtext
- Theatre language
- Theatre of the Absurd
- Tragedy
- Units
- Verbatim theatre
- Well-made play
- Women's Theatre
- 2 Performance Concepts. Acting styles
- Actor/acting
- Alienation
- Aside
- Beats
- Carnival
- Character
- Chorus
- Commedia dell'arte
- Conventions
- Cultural performance
- Energy
- Frame analysis
- Gesture
- Gestus
- Given circumstances
- Impersonation
- Improvisation
- Incidental music
- In the moment
- Mask
- Mimesis
- Motivation
- Naturalism
- Performance research
- Performative
- Personification
- Ritual
- Role/role play
- Shaman
- Through line
- Upstage
- Vocalisation
- 3 Production Concepts. Agit/Prop
- Communion
- Community theatre/drama
- Constructivism
- Cruelty
- Director and directing
- Documentary drama
- Durational performance
- Environmental theatre
- Epic Theatre
- Expressionism
- Forum theatre
- Governing idea
- Physical Theatre
- Poetic drama
- Poor Theatre
- Site specific
- Theatre of Communion
- Theatre of Cruelty
- Theatre of the Oppressed
- Total theatre
- 4 Staging Concepts. Arena staging
- Box set
- Costume
- Decorating the stage
- Design concept
- Discovery
- Empty space
- Entrances
- Found space
- Form
- Fourth wall
- Lighting
- Make-up
- Properties
- Proscenium arch
- Realism
- Scenography
- Set/setting
- Stage left/right
- Stage machinery
- Street theatre
- Surrealism
- Symbolism
- Theatre form
- Theatre in the Round
- Theatre space
- Wings
- 5 Critical Concepts. Actor-audience relationship
- Analysis
- Applied Drama; Audiences
- Authenticity
- Catharsis
- Codes of communication
- Context and contextual studies
- Critic
- Deconstruction
- Drama study
- Ideology
- Interculturalism
- Intertextuality
- Intervention Theatre
- Liminality
- Negotiated meaning
- Paratheatre
- Perception
- Postmodernism
- Praxis
- Reception
- Semiotics/theatre
- Sign system
- Text
- Theatre Anthropology
- Theatre of testimony
- Zeitgeist.
- Notes:
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Pickering, Kenneth. Key concepts in drama and performance.
- ISBN:
- 9781137109651
- 1137109653
- 9781137240057
- 1137240059
- OCLC:
- 499070050
- Publisher Number:
- 99990107974
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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