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The role of language in theatre

Pages 438-448 | Published online: 06 Jun 2009
 

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THEATRE LANGUAGE: A STUDY OF ARDEN, OSBORNE, PINTER, WESKER. By John Russell Brown. New York: Taplinger Publishing Company, 1972; pp. 256. $9.95.

DIALOGUE AND DISCOURSE: A SOCIO‐LINGUISTIC APPROACH TO MODERN DRAMA DIALOGUE AND NATURALLY OCCURRING CONVERSATION. By Deirdre Burton. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980; pp. xii + 210. $30.00.

FORGING A LANGUAGE: A STUDY OF THE PLAYS OF EUGENE O'NEILL. By Jean Chothia. London: Cambridge University Press, 1979; pp. 243. $29.50.

DIALOGUE IN AMERICAN DRAMA. By Ruby Cohn. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1971; pp. 340. $10.95.

THE LANGUAGE OF MODERN DRAMA. By Gareth Lloyd Evans. Totowa, New Jersey: Rowman and Littlefield, 1977; pp. xx + 252. $17.50.

THE MAKING OF MODERN DRAMA: A STUDY OF BÜCHNER, IBSEN, STRINDBERG, CHEKHOV, PIRANDELLO, BECKETT, HANDKE. By Richard Gilman. New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1974; pp. xii + 292. $4.50 paper.

SIX DRAMATISTS IN SEARCH OF A LANGUAGE. By Andrew K. Kennedy. London: Cambridge University Press, 1975; pp. xiv + 271. $5.95 paper.

IRONY AND DRAMA: A POETICS. By Bert O. States. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1971; pp. xx + 243. $17.50.

THE ELEMENTS OF DRAMA. By J. L. Styan. London: Cambridge University Press, 1960; pp. viii + 306. $5.95 paper.

MODERN DRAMA IN THEORY AND PRACTICE, VOLUME 1, REALISM AND NATURALISM; VOLUME 2, SYMBOLISM, SURREALISM AND THE ABSURD; VOLUME 3, EXPRESSIONISM AND EPIC THEATRE. By J. L. Styan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981; vol. 1, pp. xiv + 208, vol. 2, pp. xii + 224, vol. 3, pp. xii + 230. $29.50 each, $75.00 set.

THE IDIOM OF DRAMA. By Thomas F. Van Laan. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1970; pp. xiv + 374. $22.50.

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