Print and the Poetics of Modern Drama
W. B. Worthen
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Print and the Poetics of Modern Drama

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A study into the way in which modern dramatic printed texts relate to their performance.What does it matter what we read? The question of the materiality of the book has surprising consequences when applied to dramatic writing, where the bookish qualities of dramatic literature, qualities emphasized by the dominion of print culture, have always seemed antagonistic to plays' other life on the stage. In Print and the Poetics of Modern Drama, W. B. Worthen asks how the print form of drama bears on how we understand its dual identity - as play texts and in performance. Beginning with the most sali...