The drama handbook

PERFORMANCE, NOTATION, TEXT: 1. Performance: process and the ephemeral 2. Notation: documentation, layout, and the preserved 3. Text I: editing and reception 4. Text II: the process of reading READING STRUCTURES 5. What is genre? 6. Classical genres: tragedy, comedy, satyr-plays, and epic 7. Religious genres: the liturgy, mysteries and moralities 8. Renaissance genres: commedia dell\\\\\\\' arte, tragicomedy, masque, and opera 9. Eighteethn-and nineteeth-century genres: burlesque, sentimental and gothic drama, pantomime, melodrama, music-hall, farce, and well-made plays 10. Social genres: political theatre, agit-prop, documentary drama, and epic drama 11. The impact of technology: light, sound, radio-and TV-plays, and film-genres DEFINING ARCHITECTURES 12. The study 13. Rehearsal and administrative spaces 14. The stage and auditorium 15. The space of book trade: the scriptorium, printshop, publishing house, bookshop, and library. PERSONNEL IN PROCESS 16. Playwrights 17. Directors 18. Actors 19. Dramaturgs and literary managers 20. Designers 21. Production Staff, stage-crew, and front-of-house 22. Censors 23. Audiences 24. Critics 25. Editors 26. Teachers and readers THEATRE TODAY 27. The play-text since the 1950s 28. Challenges to the play-text 29. Alternatives to the play-text EXAM CONDITIONS 30. Pratical criticism 31. Period and special papers 32. Sample answers