Theatre as Sign System: A Semiotics of Text and PerformanceThis invaluable student handbook is the first detailed guide to explain in detail the relationship between the drama text and the theory and practice of drama in performance. Beginning at the beginning, with accessible explanations of the meanings and methods of semiotics, Theatre as Sign System addresses key drama texts and offers new and detailed information about the theories of performance. |
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Theatre as Sign System: A Semiotics of Text and Performance Elaine Aston,George Savona Limited preview - 2013 |
Theatre as Sign System: A Semiotics of Text and Performance Elaine Aston,George Savona Limited preview - 1991 |
Theatre As Sign System: A Semiotics of Text and Performance Elaine Aston,George Savona No preview available - 2015 |
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action actor analysis audience Beckett's bourgeois Brecht Chapter character Cherry Orchard chorus classic Clov comedy conflict constitutes construction context conventions costume decoding define designer dialogue difficulty director discourse dominant dramatic plot dramatic text dramatic world dramatist Elam elements Elvsted encoding Endgame establishing Everyman example extra-dialogic directions fiction fictional field figure final find first fixed foreground function further gesture Hamm Haupttext Hedda Gabler her/his Hippolytus identified ideological kinesics Kowzan's Krapp Krapp’s Last Tape LADY AUDLEY Lady Audley's Secret language light linguistic sign-system literary means Miss Tesman mode narrative Nebentext Oedipus the King offers opening mime operates Pavis performance Phaedra play Prague School production proxemic radical reading reflects relation role scene semioticians sequence setting significant signify signs social spatial specific spectator spectator's speech speech acts stage directions stage picture story-line structuralist structure Tape Teiresias textual theatre semiotics tion Top Girls tragedy Ubersfeld Veltrusky visual