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Download or read book The Drama Handbook written by John Lennard and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2002 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Could be read with profit and pleasure by any theatregoer.' -Steven Poole, The Guardian'A good basic introduction for first year students to problems of reading plays as performance texts, i.e. reading theatrically.' -Professor R. A. Cave, Royal HollowayA compact, wide-ranging, and accessible guide to reading plays, The Drama Handbook stresses the importance of understanding performance conventions and production processes through history, and offers clearly defined and presented critical vocabularies.