04095nam 2200961 450 991081179230332120200520144314.00-520-96304-010.1525/9780520963047(CKB)2670000000599076(EBL)1977558(SSID)ssj0000204308(PQKBManifestationID)11199468(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000204308(PQKBWorkID)10189262(PQKB)11734041(DE-B1597)520526(OCoLC)904425955(DE-B1597)9780520963047(Au-PeEL)EBL1977558(CaPaEBR)ebr11025730(CaONFJC)MIL734259(MiAaPQ)EBC1977558(EXLCZ)99267000000059907620150310h19921992 uy 0engur||#||||||||txtccrModern drama and the rhetoric of theater /W. B. WorthenBerkeley, California :University of California Press,1992.©19921 online resource (241 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-520-28687-1 1-336-02973-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Acknowledgments --Introduction --1. Theater and the Scene of Vision --2. Actors and Objects --3. Scripted Bodies: Poetic Theater --4. Political Theater: Staging the Spectator --Postscript. Sidi's Image: Theater and the Frame of Culture --Works Cited --IndexThe history of drama is typically viewed as a series of inert "styles." Tracing British and American stage drama from the 1880's onward, W. B. Worthen instead sees drama as the interplay of text, stage production, and audience. How are audiences manipulated? What makes drama meaningful? Worthen identifies three rhetorical strategies that distinguish an O'Neill play from a Yeats, or these two from a Brecht. Where realistic theater relies on the "natural" qualities of the stage scene, poetic theater uses the poet's word, the text, to control performance. Modern political theater, by contrast, openly places the audience at the center of its rhetorical designs, and the drama of the postwar period is shown to develop a range of post-Brechtian practices that make the audience the subject of the play. Worthen's book deserves the attention of any literary critic or serious theatergoer interested in the relationship between modern drama and the spectator.English drama20th centuryHistory and criticismAmerican drama20th centuryHistory and criticismTheaterProduction and directionHistory20th centuryTheaterEnglish-speaking countriesHistory20th centuryamerican drama.audience.brecht.british drama.drama.literary criticism.modern theater.oneill.performance.performing arts.plays.playwright.poetic theater.political theater.postwar drama.realistic theater.rhetoric.spectator.stage drama.stage production.stage.staging.theater criticism.theater history.theater.yeats.English dramaHistory and criticism.American dramaHistory and criticism.TheaterProduction and directionHistoryTheaterHistory822/.9109Worthen William B.1955-620233MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910811792303321Modern drama and the rhetoric of theater2697502UNINA