TY  - BOOK
AU  - Elam,Keir
TI  - The semiotics of theatre and drama
SN  - 9780415280174
U1  - 792.014 
PY  - 2002///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Drama
KW  - Theater
KW  - Semiotics
KW  - Semiotics and literature
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-249) and index;  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
ER  -