The Anatomy of DramaThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1942. |
Contents
CHAPTER | 1 |
The Approach to Dramatic Criticism | 41 |
The Illusion of Reality | 82 |
The Sources of Dramatic Effect | 101 |
Unity | 151 |
Comedy | 184 |
Melodrama and Tragedy | 235 |
The Drama of Thrills | 254 |
The Test of Logic and the Test of Emotion | 267 |
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