Both lecturers and students will find this book useful as it gives a basic introduction to modern drama theory as well as practical guidelines on the analysis of a play. Theinfluence of the performance orientation of aplay on aspects such as the characters, time and space, as well as the play's structure, is dealt with. The theory is constantly explained and illustratedby means of examples taken from more than 30 well-known English SouthAfrican plays. Contents