Paul Castagno

New Playwriting Strategies (eBook, PDF)

Language and Media in the 21st Century

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

New Playwriting Strategies has become a canonical text in the study and teaching of playwriting, offering a fresh and dynamic insight into the subject. This thoroughly revised and expanded second edition explores and highlights the wide spread of new techniques that form contemporary theatre writing, as well as their influence on other dramatic forms.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136630811
• Artikelnr.: 38269911

Autorenporträt

Paul C. Castagno is Professor of Theater at UNC-Wilmington, where he served as founding chair of the Department of Theater. He formerly served as Director and Head of MA programs at the School of Theater at Ohio University, and headed the MFA Playwriting/Dramaturgy programs at the University of Alabama. He teaches playwriting and dramatic literature, directs, and has published books and articles on playwriting and commedia dell'arte.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Preface Introduction Part I: The Language Playwright
Chapter 1: The Playwright's Two Voices Chapter 2: Dialogic Applications and
Practices Part II: The Dramaturgy of New Playwriting: From Building Blocks
to Revision Chapter 3: The Poetics of New Playwriting Chapter 4: Defining,
Rewriting and Refining the Script Part III: Monologic Structures: From
Orthodoxy to Innovation Chapter 5: Show us, don't tell us Chapter 6: Toward
Dialogic Monologue in New Playwriting Part IV: Formulating Character
Chapter 7: Establishing New Approaches to Character Chapter 8: Len Jenkin's
Dramaturgy of Character: Stage Figures to Archetypes Chapter 9: Eric
Overmyer: Some Principles of Character Transformation Chapter 10: Mac
Wellman: Language-based Character Works Cited Index