The Drama Handbook, 1st Edition

A Guide to Reading Plays

John Lennard and Mary Luckhurst

• Aims to enable students to read and describe plays with an appreciation of technical and critical issues
• Introduces major playwrights and dramatic genres
• Encourages students reading dramatic texts to think about each stage of a play’s existence: how it is written, in what different forms it is studied, and how it is produced and finally performed
• Features an extensive glossary of technical vocabulary needed by students to write convincingly about drama
• Includes a section on exam technique, including an analysis of sample student essays
• Concise and approachable format and writing style