Microdramas : crucibles for theater and time /

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Muse, John H. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2017]
Series:Theater--theory/text/performance.
Subjects:
One-act plays > History and criticism.
One-act plays > Technique.
Theater > Production and direction.
Pièces en un acte > Histoire et critique.
Théâtre > Production et mise en scène.
PERFORMING ARTS > Theater > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Drama.
One-act plays.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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

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