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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808326903321

Autore

Castagno Paul C. <1950-, >

Titolo

New playwriting strategies : language and media in the 21st century / / Paul C. Castagno

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-136-63080-5

1-283-44275-2

9786613442758

0-203-80301-9

1-136-63081-3

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (266 p.)

Disciplina

808.2

Soggetti

Playwriting

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: beyond the tipping point -- Strategies of language and character. On multivocality and speech genres -- Polyvocality and the ascendancy of the hybrid play -- The theatricality of character -- The transformation of character -- Len Jenkin's dramaturgy of character: from stage figures to archetypes -- Mac Wellman: language-based character -- Crossover poetics: Sarah Ruhl and Suzan Lori-Parks -- Strategies of structure and form. Units and building blocks -- Scenes, acts, and revisions -- Foundations of contemporary monologue -- Dialogic monologue: from structure to antistructure.

Sommario/riassunto

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, as well as their influence on other dramatic forms.Paul Castagno builds on the innovative plays of Len Jenkin, Mac Wellman, and the theories of Mikhail Bakhtin to investigate groundbreaking new techniques from a broad range of contemporary dramatists, including Sarah Ruhl, Suzan