Reading Plays: Interpretation and Reception

This volume is the first collection of essays to consider the whole concept of reading plays. Reading a play is a strange activity totally unlike the reading of any other literary text. Who reads plays and why do they read them? Among others, the readers may be actors in performance, playwrights reading to actors, directors producing a performance, or critics analysing plays. These activities and the reasons for reading a play are considered in the essays. The playwrights range from Terence, Shakespeare and Moliere, to Chekhov, Pinter and Peter Weiss. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of the theatre and of literature and literary theory as well as to theatre-goers.Scolnicov, Hanna is the author of 'Reading Plays: Interpretation and Reception' with ISBN 9780521394116 and ISBN 0521394112.