Introduction to the Classic Edition Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Alternative Perspective (Priestley, An Inspector Calls) 2. Analogy (Brecht, Galileo) 3. Beginnings (Chekhov, Three Sisters) 4. Counterpoint (O'Casey, The Plough and The Stars) 5. Endings (Wertenbaker, Our Country's Good) 6. Exposition (Ibsen, Hedda Gabler) 7. Externalising Inner Conflict (Marlowe, Dr Faustus) 8. False Identity (Rattigan, Separate Tables; Shakespeare, Othello) 9. Framing Action (Miller, The Crucible) 10. Incongruity (Churchill, Top Girls) 11. Irony (Shakespeare, Macbeth) 12. Mime (Shaffer, The Royal Hunt of the Sun) 13. Minimal Context (Beckett, Waiting for Godot) 14. Minor Characters (Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead) 15. Monologue (Bennett, A Chip in the Sugar) 16. Narration (Bolt, A Man for all Seasons) 17. Object Focus (Galsworthy, The Silver Box; Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan; Shakespeare, Othello) 18. Off-Stage Action (Ayckbourn, Absurd Person Singular) 19. Pause (Pinter, Betrayal) 20. Play Within A Play (Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream) 21. Reported Action (Sophocles, Oedipus) 22. Ritual (Yeats, On Baile's Strand) 23. Time Shift (Miller, Death of a Salesman) 24. Unspoken Thoughts (Friel, Philadelphia, Here I Come) 25. Voices (Shaffer, Amadeus; Thomas, Under Milk Wood; Shakespeare, King Richard III; Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral)