Fall 2003: Modern Drama: Selected Plays from 1879 to the Present Walter Levy, Pace University ISBN: 0-13-226721-7 Prentice Hall Paper; 985 pp Published: 10/21/1998
It would be nice to have not only books, but videos and CDs listings, but I tried only with the Shakespeare on the screen -- and gave up.
Originally, I had Old Books Page in every major directory (Directing, Acting), later I had to open BOOKS directory for theatre and Film Books. Do not confuse them with the reading or recommended lists! Although I prefer to list the books I like.
"Modern Drama" (textbook): This comprehensive and balanced anthology offers a collection of 25 works of modern and contemporary drama from the 1870s through the early 1990s. Features twenty-five plays that often demonstrate a significant breakthrough in maturity of expression and style for each playwright — important leaders in the development of modern and contemporary drama. THR413
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No, I do not have my reviews on theatre books I read, but I use the quotations, references, some comments (mostly on the textbooks I use for classes).
Backwards and Forwards: A Technical Manual for Reading Plays by David Ball; Southern Illinois University Press, 1983 : - Part One: Shape
- 1: What Happens That Makes Something Else Happen?
- 2: And What Happens Next?
- 3: But Do It Backwards
- 4: Stasis and Intrusion
- 5: Obstacle, Conflict
- 6: Ignorance is Bliss (or: the Very Cause of Everyone's Lunacy About Hamlet)
- 7: Things Theatrical
- Part Two: Methods
- 8: Exposition
- 9: Forwards: Hungry for Next
- 10: Missing Persons (character)
- 11: Image
- 15: Families
- 16: Generalities: Mood, Atmosphere
- 17: The Unique Factor
- 18: Changing Eras
- 19: Climax
- 20: Beginnings/Endings
- 21: Rereading
- 22: What Next?
The pages in script.vtheatre.net are old, some belong to the "third" and some even to the "second" generation of my webpages. Update them I can, only while I teach drama classes; see you here in the Fall of 2004 and 2005.
2004: I should try to use Bedford Intro to Drama in both classes: THR215 Dramlit and THR413 Plyascript Analysis (I can't cover all plays in one semester).
Each class has its own main aim: DramLit = Grammar of Drama, Playscript = Theatre as Philosophy.
Expected that students take THR215 before they enroll in THR413!
Changes: in DramLit -- DVDs (12 Angry Men -- craft of drama, Who is Afraid of Virginia Woolf -- characters, Mamet -- drama and acting?)
How to organize the viewing? Assignments with the fragments in class (order). (Dreams!)
Big issue for THR413 -- When can I introduce the "Plato Club" (critical readings of philosophy)?
* The shows I direct, while I teach class, are a part of required readings and reviews: "Shrew04" and "Oedipus X" (2004-2005 season) [see links and pix ].
From notes (for myself) page: my other directories do have assigned showcases (classic scripts); Stage Directing -- Hamlet, Method Acting -- 3 Sisters... Should I do the same with the drama classes? CaseStudy for Dramatic Literature -- Oedipus, Shrew, Pygmalion? Which is better to study "Grammar of Drama"?
See scripts-online (public domain) in PLAYS directory!
Read "The Importance of Being Earnest" or other shows directory files.
Could be Wilde as useful for Modern and Postmodern talk as Chekhov was?
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