(P/B) THE FIELD OF DRAMA

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A unique book of criticism that brings both theatre and film studies within a single theoretical framework. Martin Esslin is the author of seminal critical studies such as The Theatre of the Absurd and Brecht: A Choice of Evils. Covering artists as diverse as Duchamp and Brecht, Busby Berkely and Congreve, Pinter and WC Fields, Esslin's approach is fresh and genuinely inquisitive, examining various prepared positions and testing the jargon. Taking each element of drama - the actor, the setting, the text, the music - and making provocative cross-references to stage and screen, Esslin offers a carefully argued "system" of his own, much fuller and more sensitive than anything that has gone before. (From the publisher)

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PREFACE
I. INTORDUCTION
II. THE FIELD OF DRAMA
III. THE NATURE OF DRAMA
IV. THE SIGNS OF DRAMA: ICON, INDEX, SYMBOL
V. THE SIGNS OF DRAMA: THE FRAME
VI. THE SIGNS OF DRAMA: THE ACTOR
VII. THE SIGNS OF DRAMA: VISUALS AND DESIGN
VIII. THE SIGNS OF DRAMA: THE WORDS
IX. THE SIGNS OF DRAMA: MUSIC AND SOUND
X. THE SIGNS OF STAGE AND SCREEN
XI. STRUCTURE AS SIGNIFIER
XII. THE PERFORMERS AND THE AUDIENCE
XIII. THE AUDIENCE'S COMPETENCE: SOCIAL CONVENTIONS AND PERSONAL MEANINGS
XIV. A HIERARCHY OF MEANINGS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX