Modern drama and the rhetoric of theater /
In Modern Drama and the Rhetoric of Theater, W.B. Worthen examines how the dynamic interplay between dramatic text and stage production shapes the audience's experience in the modern theater. Dividing the "rhetoric" of theatrical performance into three modes--realistic, poetic, and po...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©1992.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Chekhov's camera : the rhetoric of stage realism
- Invisible women : problem drama, 1890-1920
- Invisible actors : O'Neill, the Method, and the masks of "character"
- Visible scenes : American realism and the absent audience
- Empty spaces and the power of privacy : Pinter, Shepard, and Bond
- Poetic theater and the work of acting
- The discipline of speech : Yeats's dance drama
- The discipline of performance : The dance of death and Murder in the cathedral
- The discipline of the text : Beckett's theater
- Transforming the field of theater
- Breaking the frame of history : Hitler dances and The Churchill play
- History and the frame of genre : Laughter! and Poppy
- Framing gender : Cloud nine and Fefu and her friends
- Postscript : Sidi's image : theater and the frame of culture.