The  theater experience
By: Edwin Wilson.
Edition: 2d ed.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Published: 1980
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 431
ISBN-13: 9780070706682
Subjects: Theater.; Drama.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 415-417.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Part 1 : The audience.; title: The role of the audience; title: The imagination of the audience; title: The background of the audience; title: Part 2 : The performers and the director.; title: Acting : offstage and on; title: Stage acting; title: The director; title: Part 3 : The designers : environment and the visual elements.; title: Stage spaces; title: Scenery; title: Lighting and sound; title: Stage costumes; title: Part 4 : The playwright : dramatic characters and dramatic structure.; title: Dramatic characters; title: Conventions of dramatic structure; title: Dramatic structure : climactic and episodic; title: Dramatic structure : other forms; title: Part 5 : Purpose and point of view.; title: Purpose and perspective; title: Tragedy and other serious drama; title: Comedy and tragicomedy; title: Part 6 : The total experience.; title: Bringing the elements together; title: Appendixes.; title: Technical terms; title: Major theatrical forms and movements; title: Historical outline