Hayman, Higham Ronald, 1932-2019

How to read a play / Ronald Hayman. - Rev. and updated ed. - New York : Grove Press, 1999. - 113 p. ; 21 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

The reader and the medium
Sound effects
Momentum and suspense
Not by words alone
Costume and identity
Identity and character
Irony and ambiguity
Mental theater
Silence
Meaning and experience
Photogenic action
Play-reading as a pleasure

How to read a play is an introductory guide to the art of translating the printed page of a play or screenplay into dramatic mental images; this book includes a chapter about how to read a screenplay, noting the intrinisic differences between a screenplay and a playscript

080213629X (pbk.) 9780802136299 (pbk.)


Drama--Study and teaching.
Reading.
Teatro --Estudio y enseñanza
Lectura

PN 1701 / H422h 1999

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