Exploring the Language of Drama

Fills a significant gap in market, currently almost no work on drama published with students in mind

Includes a wide range of extracts (including Tom Stoppard, Arthur Miller, Alan Ayckbourn, Don Mames)

Edited collection - many contributors are internationally known experts in the field: Marilyn Cooper, Donald Freeman, (US), Vimala Herman (UK), Michael Toolan (UK), Paul Simpson (UK) and Jean Jacques Weber

Editors - Verdonk - Short - very well established

Each chapter is preceeded by brief summary of contents and followed by exercises

Covers various approaches - discourse analysis, pragmatics, cognitive approach