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Absurd Drama
Act III
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audience linguistic awareness
Author_Arnold P. Hinchliffe
Birthday
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cathedral
CEMA
Christopher Fry
Commercial Theatre
Confidential Clerk
Coterie Theatre
Countess
denis
donoghue
doone
dramatists
Eliot's plays
Eliot’s Plays
Ellida
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evolution of poetic theatre forms
Francis Steegmuller
Fry's plays
Fugitive
Good Life
Holds
language in performance
language of the audience
Modern Verse Drama
murder
Odd
Poetic Drama
poetic performance analysis
religious theatrical forms
rupert
Rupert Doone
Spiritual Portentousness
theatre semiotics
twentieth-century playwrights
Verse
Verse Drama
Verse Line
william
worsley
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781138283985
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 22 Jan 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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First published in 1977, this book provides a clear and well-illustrated analysis of modern verse drama. It studies the work of its chief exponents, T. S. Eliot and Christopher Fry, as well as the genre’s place in the development of modern theatre. It particular focuses on the effect that verse drama has had on an audience’s awareness of language in the theatre, paving the way for dramatists like Pinter, Beckett and Wesker.
This book will be of particular interest to those studying modern poetry and drama.
