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A Student Guide to Play Analysis
David Rush
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Description for A Student Guide to Play Analysis
Paperback. David Rush offers a guide to interpreting drama in A Student Guide to Play Analysis. Rush emphasizes the importance of students developing insights of their own. He describes the essential difference between a story and a play, outlines four ways of looking at plays, and then takes up the typical structural devices of a well-made play. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; DSG. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 168 x 19. Weight in Grams: 386.
With the skills of a playwright, the vision of a producer, and the wisdom of an experienced teacher, David Rush offers a fresh and innovative guide to interpreting drama in A Student Guide to Play Analysis, the first undergraduate teaching tool to address postmodern drama in addition to classic and modern. Covering a wide gamut of texts and genres, this far-reaching and user-friendly volume is easily paired with most anthologies of plays and is accessible even to those without a literary background. Contending that there are no right or wrong answers in play analysis, Rush emphasizes the importance of students ... Read more
With the skills of a playwright, the vision of a producer, and the wisdom of an experienced teacher, David Rush offers a fresh and innovative guide to interpreting drama in A Student Guide to Play Analysis, the first undergraduate teaching tool to address postmodern drama in addition to classic and modern. Covering a wide gamut of texts and genres, this far-reaching and user-friendly volume is easily paired with most anthologies of plays and is accessible even to those without a literary background. Contending that there are no right or wrong answers in play analysis, Rush emphasizes the importance of students ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Carbondale, United States
ISBN
9780809326099
SKU
V9780809326099
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About David Rush
David Rush is an associate professor of theatre at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, where he has taught play analysis for over nine years. Named 2002 Playwriting Teacher of the Year by the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, Rush is a Resident Writer Emeritus of the Chicago Dramatists and an ensemble member at the Stage Left Theater in Chicago. He ... Read more
Reviews for A Student Guide to Play Analysis
This is the most comprehensive text on script analysis, perfect for the entry-level undergraduate course in the field. Rush covers tremendous amount of ground. His command of the whole Dramatic bag is amazing.-Paul Castagno, author of New Playwriting Strategies: A Language-based Approach to Playwriting