W. B. Worthen

Drama

Between Poetry and Performance

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Drama: Between Poetry and Performance discusses major plays,drawing on examples from playwrights including Shakespeare, Ibsen,Beckett, and Parks, and asks how they offer a critical perspectiveon the drama s relation to books, to the process of embodiment, andto the mapping of space in the theatre.

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An engaging book spanning the fields of drama, literary criticism,genre, and performance studies, Drama: Between Poetry andPerformance teaches students how to read drama by exploring thethreshold between text and performance.
Draws on examples from major playwrights including Shakespeare,Ibsen, Beckett, and Parks
Explores the critical terms and controversies that animate theperformance and study of drama, such as the status of language, thefunction of character and plot, and uses of writing
Engages in a theoretical, disciplinary, and culturalrepositioning of drama, by exploring and contesting its position atthe threshold between text and performance

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 151mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 446g
• ISBN-13: 9781405153423
• ISBN-10: 1405153423
• Artikelnr.: 28094833

Autorenporträt

W. B. Worthen is Professor and Chair of the Department of Theatre at Barnard College, Columbia University. He is the author of The Idea of the Actor (1984), Modern Drama and the Rhetoric of Theater (1992), Shakespeare and the Authority of Performance (1997), Shakespeare and the Force of Modern Performance (2003), and Print and the Poetics of Modern Drama (2006). He is also the editor of several volumes, including A Companion to Shakespeare and Performance (with Barbara Hodgdon, Wiley-Blackwell 2005), and the Wadsworth Anthology of Drama, 5th edition (2006).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Fond Records: Metaphors of Drama Chapter 1. More than is
Dreamt of: Between Literature and Performance Studies Chapter 2. The Name
of Action: Thinking through the Plot Chapter 3. Words, Words, Words:
Thinking through Poetry Chapter 4: The Censure of Seeming: Thinking through
Character Chapter 5: The Faculty of Eyes and Ears: Thinking through
Spectacle