Washington and Lee University

Washington and Lee University

Theater 121: Play Reading and Analysis

Research Guide

Yolanda Merrill - Humanities Librarian

 

Important Subject Headings in Annie. Click below to find book titles:

Drama Study And Teaching

Theater Production And Direction

Theaters Stage Setting And Scenery

Drama Technique

Search on Annie by Keyword:

ex: Antigone and criticism

      Shakespeare and staging

      etc.

Some suggested books:

Ingham, Rosemary. From page to stage : how theatre designers make connections between scripts and images. Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann, c1998.
CONTENTS Imagination, perception, and memory -- Plays -- Playscript
analysis -- Text analysis -- Literary theory -- Theatre
yesterday and today -- The audience -- Design conversations.
CALL NO. PN2091.S8 I45 1998.

Bloom, Michael, 1950-. Thinking like a director, a practical handbook. New York : Faber and Faber, 2001.
CALL NO. PN2053 .B58 2001.

Hornby, Richard, 1938-. Script into performance : a structuralist view of play production.
Austin : University of Texas Press, c1977.
CALL NO. PN2039 .H66.

Some suggested databases:

Literature Resource Center

Magill on Literature

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