Elam, Keir. <br/><br/>
The semiotics of theatre and drama / 
Keir Elam. 
 - 2nd ed. 
 - London ;  New York :  Routledge,  2002. 
 - xii, 260 p. ;  21 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-249) and index. 
<br/><br/>1. Preliminaries: Semiotics and Poetics: The Semiotics Enterprise; How Many Semiotics?; The material. 2. Foundations: Signs in the Theatre: Prague structuralism and the theatrical sign; Typologies of the sign. 3. Theatrical Communication: Codes, Systems and the Performance Text: Elements of theatrical communication; Theatrical Systems and Codes; Theatrical competence: frame, convention and the role of the audience. 4. Dramatic Logic: The construction of the dramatic world; Dramatic action and time; Actant, dramatis persona and the dramatic model. 5. Dramatic Discourse: Dramatic Communication; Context and deixis; Universe of discourse and co-text; Speech acts; The said and the unsaid: implicatures and figures; Textuality; Towards a dramatological analysis. 6. Concluding Comments: Theatre, Drama, Semiotics: Dramatic Text/performance text; A united enterprise? Suggestions for further reading 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780415280174 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Drama.<br/>Theater--Semiotics.<br/>Semiotics and literature.<br/>Semiotics.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>792.014  / ELA/S