Fields Of Play In Modern Drama
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Fields of Play in Modern Drama
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Author | : Thomas R. Whitaker |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 1977-01-01 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 0783794800 |
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Fields of Play in Modern Drama
Author | : Thomas R. Whitaker |
Publsiher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2015-03-08 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9781400871773 |
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Starting from the assumption that all theater is at least implicitly participatory, Professor Whitaker approaches thirteen plays, from Ibsen's Rosmersholm to Beckett's Endgame and Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. He asks the reader to commit himself to a variety of points of view—those of witnesses, actors, directors, and characters—as a series of "critical fictions" lead him toward the experience of each play in performance. The author supplies detailed readings of the plays in various modes. The styles of the chapters vary according to the issues dominant in the plays discussed, and the reader experiences simultaneously a sense of approaching the meaning of performance and of gaining a deeper understanding of the play through a subtle and allusive commentary. Originally published in 1977. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Modern Drama and the Rhetoric of Theater
Author | : W. B. Worthen |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2015-01-30 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780520286870 |
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The history of drama is typically viewed as a series of inert "styles." Tracing British and American stage drama from the 1880s onward, W. B. Worthen instead sees drama as the interplay of text, stage production, and audience. How are audiences manipulated? What makes drama meaningful? Worthen identifies three rhetorical strategies that distinguish an O'Neill play from a Yeats, or these two from a Brecht. Where realistic theater relies on the "natural" qualities of the stage scene, poetic theater uses the poet's word, the text, to control performance. Modern political theater, by contrast, openly places the audience at the center of its rhetorical designs, and the drama of the postwar period is shown to develop a range of post-Brechtian practices that make the audience the subject of the play. Worthen's book deserves the attention of any literary critic or serious theatergoer interested in the relationship between modern drama and the spectator.
Modern Drama in Theory and Practice Volume 1 Realism and Naturalism
Author | : J. L. Styan |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0521296285 |
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This 1981 volume begins with the French revolt against naturalism in theatre and then covers the European realist movement.
Mirrors of Our Playing
Author | : Thomas R. Whitaker |
Publsiher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 047211025X |
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Examines the major paradigms that have influenced modern English-speaking theater
The Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett
Author | : Charles A. Carpenter |
Publsiher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 525 |
Release | : 2011-10-13 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 9781441184214 |
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The Vital Lie
Author | : Anthony S. Abbott |
Publsiher | : University of Alabama Press |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2003-08-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780817312022 |
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The Vital Lie is the first book to examine the reality-illusion conflict in modern drama from Ibsen to present-day playwrights. The book questions why vital lies, lies necessary for life itself, are such an obsessive concern for playwrights of the last hundred years. Using the work of fifteen playwrights, Abbott seeks to discover if modern playwrights treat illusions as helpful or necessary to life, or as signals of sicknesses from which human beings need to be cured. What happens to characters when they are forced to face the truth about themselves and their worlds without the protection of their illusions? The author develops a three-part historical analysis of the use of the reality-illusion theme, from its origins as a metaphysical search to its current elaborations as a theatrical game.
Harold Pinter s The Dumb Waiter
Author | : Mary F. Brewer |
Publsiher | : Rodopi |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9789042025561 |
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This collection of essays focuses on one of Harold Pinter's most popular and challenging plays, The Dumb Waiter, while addressing also a range of significant issues current in Pinter studies and which are applicable beyond this play. The interesting and provocative dialogues between established and emerging scholars featured here provide close readings of The Dumb Waiter, within relevant cultural and historical contexts and from a range of theoretical perspectives. The essays range over issues of autobiography and theater, genre studies, and the impact of Pinter's political activism on his dramatic production, among others. The collection is also concerned with the meaning of the play when assessed against other example's of Pinter's work, both dramatic and non-dramatic writing. Each contributor shows a gift for presenting a complex argument in an accessible style, making this book an important resource for a wide range of readers, from undergraduates to postgraduates and specialist researchers. The collection offers essays that approach The Dumb Waiter, from an interdisciplinary perspective and as both a literary and dramatic text. Thus, the book should be of equal significance to those encountering Pinter within the context of English Studies, drama, and performance.