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Drama is the only literary form whose finished version is a live performance. Everything else — the text, the stage directions, the script — is...

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Drama is the only literary form whose finished version is a live performance. Everything else — the text, the stage directions, the script — is preparation. Key sections include: Dr a ma.; Opening The play is the event.; I · First principles The Poetics.; II The Athenian three.; III Comedy.; IV Roman drama.; V Sanskrit theatre.; VI The medieval stage.; VII Noh & Kabuki.; VIII Commedia dell'arte..

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  1. 01Dr a ma.
  2. 02Opening The play is the event.
  3. 03I · First principles The Poetics.
  4. 04II The Athenian three.
  5. 05III Comedy.
  6. 06IV Roman drama.
  7. 07V Sanskrit theatre.
  8. 08VI The medieval stage.
  9. 09VII Noh & Kabuki.
  10. 10VIII Commedia dell'arte.
  11. 11IX Shakespeare.
  12. 12X Marlowe, Jonson, Webster.
  13. 13XI Molière & Racine.
  14. 14XII Goethe's Faust.
  15. 15XIII Ibsen, & the modern.
  16. 16XIV Chekhov.
  17. 17XV Strindberg & Pirandello.
  18. 18XVI O'Neill.
  19. 19XVII Brecht.
  20. 20XVIII Beckett.
  21. 21XIX Williams, Miller, Hansberry.
  22. 22XX Pinter, Stoppard, Churchill.
  23. 23XXI August Wilson.
  24. 24XXII Where the form is now.
  25. 25XXIII Twenty-six plays.
  26. 26XXIV Directors as authors.
  27. 27XXV Where to go next.
  28. 28The end of the deck.
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