Analyzing Drama: A Student Casebook

This play-analysis textbook contains 50 short essays on geographically diverse, historically significant dramas -- among them Major Barbara, Our Town, Hamlet, A Streetcar Named Desire, Romeo and Juliet, Miss Julie, Electra, Death of a Salesman, The Balcony, The Cherry Orchard, Mother Courage, The Merry Wives of Windsor, and Old Times. The essays are supported by a Step-by-Step Approach to Play Analysis, a Glossary of Dramatic Terms, Study Guides, Topics for Writing and Discussion, Bibliographical Resources, and a comprehensive Index. Written for university and advanced high school students, these critical essays provide practical models to aid and promote 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. He is concerned with dramatic analysis that can be of benefit to directors, designers, and even actors. Analysis of character, action, dialogue, and setting can thus be translated in

Author: James R. Russo
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 11/03/2021
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.70h x 6.20w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9781789761122
ISBN10: 1789761123
BISAC Categories:
- Performing Arts | Theater | History & Criticism
- Literary Criticism | Drama
- Political Science | General

About the Author

James R. Russo is an independent researcher who holds graduate degrees from Louisiana State University and the University of Richmond. He has taught at those schools as well as Tulane. Russos primary scholarly interests are the cinema and comparative literature. He has recently published The Bookman: William Troy on Literature and Criticism, 1927-1950; Film Nation: William Troy on the Cinema, 1933-1935; and Analyzing Drama: A Student Casebook.