A Student Guide to Play Analysis

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With the skills of a playwright, the vision of a producer, and the wisdom of an experienced teacher, David Rush offers a fresh and innovative guide to interpreting drama in A Student Guide to Play Analysis, the first undergraduate teaching tool to address postmodern drama along with classic and up to date. Covering a wide gamut of texts and genres, this far-reaching and user-friendly volume is easily paired with most anthologies of plays and is accessible even to those with no literary background.

Contending that there are no right or mistaken answers in play analysis, Rush emphasizes the importance of students developing insights of their own. The process is twofold: be aware the critical terms that are used to define more than a few parts and then apply these to a particular play. Rush clarifies the concepts of plot, character, and language, advancing Aristotle’ s concept of the Four Causes as a method for approaching a play through more than a few critical windows. He describes the essential difference between a story and a play, outlines four ways of having a look at plays, and then takes up the typical structural devices of a well-made play, four primary genres and their hybrids, and a large number of styles, from expressionism to postmodernism.

For Every subject, he defines critical norms and analyzes plays common to the canon. A Student Guide to Play Analysis draws on thoughtful examinations of such dramas as The Cherry Orchard, The Good Woman of Setzuan, Fences, The Little Foxes, A Doll House, The Glass Menagerie, and The Emperor Jones. Every chapter ends with a list of questions so one can guide students in further study.

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