The Art of Writing Drama. (Record no. 48917)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781408141328 |
| Qualifying information | (electronic bk.) |
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| Canceled/invalid ISBN | 9780413775863 |
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| System control number | (CaONFJC)MIL752369 |
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| System control number | (OCoLC)652348967 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | MiAaPQ |
| Language of cataloging | eng |
| Description conventions | rda |
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| Transcribing agency | MiAaPQ |
| Modifying agency | MiAaPQ |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | PN1661 -- .W363 2008eb |
| 082 0# - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 808.2 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Wandor, Michelene. |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The Art of Writing Drama. |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | 1st ed. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | London : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2008. |
| 264 #4 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | ©2008. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource (196 pages) |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE | |
| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
| Source | rdacontent |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE | |
| Media type term | computer |
| Media type code | c |
| Source | rdamedia |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE | |
| Carrier type term | online resource |
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| 490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | Professional Media Practice Series |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- Learning to write drama -- Creative writing and drama -- Backgrounds -- After censorship -- Positioning dramatic writing -- From imagination to page and stage -- Writing drama per se - the complete text -- The Death of the Author and the birth of the dramatist -- Drama - the 'complete' text -- Received clichés -- Chapter One: Drama - the apparently incomplete text -- Drama as collaborative art -- Writing drama as an imaginative mode of thought -- Drama as a visual medium -- Drama as the novel manqué -- Conclusions -- The compleat dramatist -- Chapter Two: The emergence of the dramatist and drama in education -- Drama and education -- Teaching drama after World War Two -- After censorship, new dramatists and new drama -- Chapter Three: The performance text -- Theory -- Anthropology -- Performance and meaning -- Audience as political and social entity -- Theatre and semiotics -- Competence and performance -- The performance triumvirate -- Performance theory and the Death of the Author -- The Death of the Author and the fourth wall -- Audience as active -- Conclusions -- Chapter Four: The text from the other side: director and performer -- The director -- The performer, acting and the text -- The fourth wall -- After Stanislavsky - new objectivism -- Conclusions: performance and immediacy -- Chapter Five: The novel and the drama -- Size matters -- Narrative voice, point of view, character and subjectivity -- Poly-vocality and the dialogic -- Narrative, structure and causality -- Chapter Six: Methods of teaching - the workshop -- Early workshop history -- The tutorial precedent -- Workshop pedagogy -- Authority -- Workshop practice and power-relations -- Criticism and value judgement -- Training professional writers versus self-expression -- The workshop as a House of Correction -- The workshop as therapy group. |
| 505 8# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Theatre workshops -- Conclusions -- Chapter Seven: The concepts in how-to books on dramatic writing -- Action or character? -- Action, conflict and crisis (actions speak louder than words) -- Character -- Premise, idea, vision, theme -- Scenario -- Dialogue -- Narrative and causality -- Drama and creative writing -- Conclusions - dialogue - the absent centre -- Chapter Eight: Stage directions -- Main or subsidiary -- From directions to performance -- Extradialogic stage directions -- Extra- and intra-dialogic stage directions -- Conclusions -- Chapter Nine: The compleat dramatist - preparing to write -- Copyright -- The story so far -- From prose to dialogue -- Narrative through dialogue -- Monologue and character -- Monologue and prose -- Chapter Ten: The text - dialogue and relationships -- Dialogue, action and speech acts -- Dialogue and voicing -- Dialogue - turn-taking, exchange -- Reaction and interaction: dialogue and relationships -- Response as the condition of dialogue -- Relationships and character -- Chapter Eleven: Teaching and learning the art of writing drama -- Aims and boundaries -- Chapter Twelve: The pedagogic process -- Overheard conversations -- Languages and individual resources -- Words on the page, in the air and on the floor -- Scenes on the air and behind the fourth wall -- Analysis and possibility -- Plan, event, conflict and subtext -- Time and place -- Structural imperatives - beginning, middle and end -- Immediacy, pivot and exposition -- Example: narrative and causality -- Structure -- Pivot -- Chapter Thirteen: Subject matter, character and follow-up -- Subject matter, theme and message -- Character -- Rewriting and further writing -- After class -- Chapter Fourteen: Culture and representation -- Gender as a case study -- Women dramatists -- Chapter Fifteen: Conclusions -- Bibliography. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | The Art of Writing Drama by acclaimed dramatist Michelene Wandor is both a scholarly and immensely practical guide to writing for the stage that couples theory with practical guidance and exercises. |
| 588 ## - SOURCE OF DESCRIPTION NOTE | |
| Source of description note | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources. |
| 590 ## - LOCAL NOTE (RLIN) | |
| Local note | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Playwriting. |
| 655 #4 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM | |
| Genre/form data or focus term | Electronic books. |
| 776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY | |
| Relationship information | Print version: |
| Main entry heading | Wandor, Michelene |
| Title | The Art of Writing Drama |
| Place, publisher, and date of publication | London : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,c2008 |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780413775863 |
| 797 2# - LOCAL ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME (RLIN) | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | ProQuest (Firm) |
| 830 #0 - SERIES ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE | |
| Uniform title | Professional Media Practice Series |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=2003342">https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=2003342</a> |
| Public note | Click to View |
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