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内容提要

  

    《研习戏剧》（第三版）直击戏剧的本身，审视了戏剧剧本、从人物角色、自白对话到情节动作，从演员的肢体语言到舞台的设计，最后还涉及影响戏剧的文化和阐释。作者向读者展示了戏剧从文本到演出再到舞台的过程中众多的奥妙所在，运用语言学、认知科学、表演学、空间设计等跨学科知识，引领他们从基础的角度入手研究、学习戏剧。

Acknowledgements
Chapter 1  Getting started
  Reading the play
  Stage directions
Chapter 2  Characters and persons
  Expectations about character
  Three aspects of dramatic character
  Mapping characters
  Developing the aspects of dramatic character
  Character articulation
  Further aspects of dramatic character
  Character at work
Chapter 3  Diatogue
  The workings of dialogue
  The workings of conversation
  Speech acts
  The stylistics of theatrical prose and verse
  Dialogue, speaking position and the choices of reading
Chapter4  Plot and action
  Plot, action and situation
  Modelling action
  Story, plot and narration
  Character and scenes
Chapter 5  The actor's body
  Stage directions
  Limits and margins
Chapter 6  Spaces
  Space and A Doll's House
  A systematic approach to space
  Models and maps of theatrical space
Chapter 7  Cutture and interpretation
  Writers
  Location
  Performers
  Audiences
  Interpretation
Glossary
Bibliography
Index