W. B. Worthen

Drama (eBook, PDF)

Between Poetry and Performance

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Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781444317381
• Artikelnr.: 37357348

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