TY  - GEN
AU  - Elam, Keir
TI  - Semiotics of theatre and drama
SN  - 9780415280181
U1  - 792.01 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - London
PB  - Routledge
N1  - Contents
General Editor's Preface  ix
Acknowledgements  xi
1. Preliminaries: Semiotics and Poetics  1 
The Semiotics Enterprise  1
How Many Semiotics?  2
The material  3
2. Foundations: Signs in the Theatre  4 
Prague structuralism and the theatrical sign  4 
Typologies of the sign  17
3. Theatrical Communication: Codes, Systems and the Performance Text  28 
Elements of theatrical communication  28 
Theatrical Systems and Codes  43 
Theatrical competence: frame, convention and the role of the audience  78
4. Dramatic Logic  88 
The construction of the dramatic world  88 
Dramatic action and time  105
Actant, dramatis persona and the dramatic model  114
5. Dramatic Discourse  123 
Dramatic Communication  123 
Context and deixis  125 
Universe of discourse and co-text  135 
Speech acts  142 
The said and the unsaid: implicatures and figures  155
Textuality  162 
Towards a dramatological analysis  167 
6. Concluding Comments: Theatre, Drama, Semiotics  190
Dramatic Text/performance text  190
A united enterprise?  191 
'POST'-SCRIPT: POST-SEMIOTICS, POSTHUMOUS SEMIOTICS, CLOSET SEMIOTICS  193
Suggestions for further reading  222
Bibliography  231 
Index  251
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