Includes bibliographical references (page 97) and indexes.
Are you sitting comfortably? -- What is drama? -- The place -- The set -- Characters -- Exposition -- Openings -- Realism: telling it like it is? -- Realism -- Adjacency pairs -- Real conversation at work -- The co-operative principle -- Soaps -- Presentation of character: non-standard language -- Dialect -- Standard English -- The Shakespearean protagonist -- The soliloquy -- Storytelling -- Labov's narrative categories -- Cohesion-- Structure -- The grammar of sound -- Rhythm and stress -- Book to film -- What? No narrator?
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This book is unique in offering A-Level and undergraduate students hands-on practical experience of textual analysis focused on drama. It applies contemporary linguistic research to a wide range of plays, soap operas and screenplays.