A collection of theatrical scenes taken from a variety of dramatic periods, all linked by the theme of food. Focusing on this subject, the pack explores the methods playwrights have used over the years to dramatise it. In this way, the pack provides insights and significances of of private and public behaviour. The selection, from early 15th century to the present day, provides an insight into the conventions and expectations that are, or have been, associated with food, and cover the major milestones of theatrical development from Shakespeare to Brecht, Restoration Comedy to the Theatre of the Absurd. The book examines how theories of theatre work, and how innovations in theatrical style both reflect and condition audiences' reponses to plays in perfomance. Each main extract is set against a parallel text from a different period or style, and there are details on both the context or the plays from which they are taken and the times in which they were written.
- ISBN10 034052183X
- ISBN13 9780340521830
- Publish Date 30 August 1990
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 4 May 2000
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Hodder Arnold
- Imprint Hodder Arnold H&S
- Format Paperback
- Pages 96
- Language English