Record Nr.

UNINA9910970516603321

Autore

Luckhurst Mary

Titolo

Dramaturgy : a revolution in theatre / / Mary Luckhurst

Pubbl/distr/stampa


Cambridge ; ; New York, : Cambridge University Press, 2006

ISBN


9780511138874
0511138873
9781107153370
1107153379
9781280308987
1280308982
9780511140297
0511140290
9780511139482
0511139489
9780511140662
0511140665
9780511309199
0511309198
9780511486050
0511486057
9780511139895
0511139896

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 297 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cambridge studies in modern theatre

Disciplina

792.023

Soggetti

Theater - Production and direction

Dramaturges

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 268-285) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Gotthold Lessing and the Hamburg dramaturgy -- Dramaturgy in nineteenth-century England -- William Archer and Harley Granville Barker: constructions of the literary manager -- Bertolt Brecht: the theory and practice of the dramaturg -- Kenneth Tynan and the

National Theatre -- Dramaturgy and literary management in England today.

Sommario/riassunto

Dramaturgy: A Revolution in Theatre is a substantial history of the origins of dramaturgs and literary managers. It frames the explosion of professional appointments in England within a wider continental map reaching back to the Enlightenment and eighteenth-century Germany, examining the work of the major theorists and practitioners of dramaturgy, from Granville Barker and Gotthold Lessing to Brecht and Tynan. This study positions Brecht's model of dramaturgy as central to the worldwide revolution in theatre-making practices, and it also makes a substantial argument for Granville Barker's and Tynan's contributions to the development of literary management. With the territories of play and performance-making being increasingly hotly contested, and the public's appetite for new plays showing no sign of diminishing, Mary Luckhurst investigates the dramaturg as a cultural and political phenomenon.