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New Playwriting Strategies : Language and Media in the 21st Century.

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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Castagno, Paul C.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Front Cover; New Playwriting Strategies; Copyright Page; Contents; Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Beyond the tipping point; 1. New Playwriting Strategies: Overview and terms; Part I: Strategies of Language and Character; 2. On multivocality and speech genres; 3. Polyvocality and the ascendancy of the hybrid play; 4. The theatricality of character; 5. The transformation of character; 6. Len Jenkin's dramaturgy of character: from stage figures to archetypes; 7. Mac Wellman: language-based character; 8. Crossover poetics: Sarah Ruhl and Suzan-Lori Parks.
  • Part II: Strategies of Structure and Form9. Units and building blocks; 10. Scenes, acts, and revisions; 11. Foundations of contemporary monologue; 12. Dialogic monologue: from structure to antistructure; Works consulted; Index.