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Microdramas : Crucibles for Theater and Time /

"In Microdramas, John H. Muse argues that plays shorter than twenty minutes deserve sustained attention, and that brevity should be considered a distinct mode of theatrical practice. Focusing on artists for whom brevity became both a structural principle and a tool to investigate theater itself...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Muse, John H. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2017]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • One. Introduction: Time Pieces
  • Two. The Dimensions of the Moment: Short Spaces and the Birth of the Modernist Microdrama
  • Three. The Future in the Instant: Futurist Synthesis in Theory and Practice
  • Four. The Shape of Time in Beckettâ#x80;#x99;s Late Theater
  • Five. Long Shorts: Contemporary Micro-marathons
  • Notes
  • Bibliography