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Modern drama and the rhetoric of theater /

The history of drama is typically viewed as a series of inert ""styles."" Tracing British and American stage drama from the 1880s onward, W.B. Worthen instead sees drama as the interplay of text, stage production, and audience. How are audiences manipulated? What makes drama mean...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Worthen, William B., 1955- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley, California : University of California Press, 1992.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Theater and the Scene of Vision; Chekhov's Camera: The Rhetoric of Stage Realism; Invisible Women: Problem Drama, 1890-1920; 2. Actors and Objects; 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; 3. Scripted Bodies: Poetic Theater; 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 
505 8 |a The Discipline of the Text: Beckett's Theater4. Political Theater: Staging the Spectator; 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; Works Cited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z 
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