Tom Stoppard's Stagecraft

Download or read book Tom Stoppard's Stagecraft written by Stephen Hu and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1989 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the widely acclaimed premiere of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead in 1967, Tom Stoppard has continued to provide an intellectual depth to his works that is uncommon in Broadway or West End theatrical productions. As a capable playwright, Stoppard effectively manages the full range of the elements of theatre to work as integral points in his rhetorical statements. This study presumes that one cannot understand a dramatic composition in isolation from a context of playgoer activity and analyzes the meanings that arise in Stoppard's plays from sets, furnishings, properties, lighting, music, sound effects, vocal delivery, mise en scène, actions, movements, gestures, costumes, and dramatic structure.