The Theory and Analysis of Drama (European Studies in English Literature)
Contributors: John Halliday (Translator)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: October 25, 1991
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 359
ISBN-13: 9780521423830
Subjects: Literary theory; Plays / Drama; Literary Criticism; Drama; General; Semiotics & Theory; Literary Criticism & Collections / Theory
First sentence: Our efforts to put forward a descriptive and communicative poetics for a historically and typologically extremely diverse corpus of dramatic texts have not been greatly assisted by previous theoretical discussions of the dramatic genre, which all tend to elevate a historically specific form to an absolute norm, thereby narrowing the concept of 'drama' in a most decisive way.