Drama: Plays, Theatre and Performance

acting action actors ancient Antony and Cleopatra Aristotle audience Beckett's Bernard Shaw Bertolt Bertolt Brecht Brecht century certainly characters Chekhov's Christian chronicle plays classical climax clowns comedy comic commedia dell'arte companies contemporary convention critical developed dialogue dramatists Edward Bond effect element Elizabethan emotional English entertainment ESTRAGON example farce Faustus France give Godot Greek tragedy Hamlet Handbook Harold Pinter hero heroic human Ibsen's ideas illusion imaginative involved John Juliet kind King Lear knocking Lady lines London Macbeth medieval melodrama Midsummer Night's Dream morality murder National Theatre nature nineteenth-century opera Oresteia particular passage performance play playwrights plot poetic present qualities radio reading realistic recognisable rhythm role Roman Romeo Samuel Beckett satiric scene sense Shakespeare's Shaw's social soliloquy speech stage story Strindberg structure style symbolic theatrical themes tradition W. B. Yeats Waiting for Godot whole words written