A compact, wide-ranging, and accessible guide to reading plays, The Drama Handbook stresses the importance of understanding performance conventions and production processes through history, and offers clearly defined and presented critical vocabularies.
John Lennard Books
John Lennard's writing delves deeply into the analysis of literature, offering readers profound insights into various genres and their historical evolution. His approach is meticulous and detail-oriented, establishing him as an authority in his field. Lennard focuses on understanding how literary works are created and how they shape our perception of the world.
The Poetry Handbook
A Guide to Reading Poetry for Pleasure and Practical Criticism
- 238 pages
- 9 hours of reading
Provides a practical guide to the poet's craft. Topics such as metre, form, layout, lineation, punctuation, rhyme, diction and syntax are covered and at the end of each chapter, each topic is applied to the same poem, Nobel-winner Derek Walcott's "Nearing Forty".