《研习戏剧》（第三版）直击戏剧的本身，审视了戏剧剧本、从人物角色、自白对话到情节动作，从演员的肢体语言到舞台的设计，最后还涉及影响戏剧的文化和阐释。作者向读者展示了戏剧从文本到演出再到舞台的过程中众多的奥妙所在，运用语言学、认知科学、表演学、空间设计等跨学科知识，引领他们从基础的角度入手研究、学习戏剧。

Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 Getting started
Reading the play
Stage directions
Chapter 2 Characters and persons
Expectations about character
Three aspects of dramatic character
Mapping characters
Developing the aspects of dramatic character
Character articulation
Further aspects of dramatic character
Character at work
Chapter 3 Diatogue
The workings of dialogue
The workings of conversation
Speech acts
The stylistics of theatrical prose and verse
Dialogue, speaking position and the choices of reading
Chapter4 Plot and action
Plot, action and situation
Modelling action
Story, plot and narration
Character and scenes
Chapter 5 The actor's body
Stage directions
Limits and margins
Chapter 6 Spaces
Space and A Doll's House
A systematic approach to space
Models and maps of theatrical space
Chapter 7 Cutture and interpretation
Writers
Location
Performers
Audiences
Interpretation
Glossary
Bibliography
Index