Modern drama and the rhetoric of theater / / W. B. Worthen
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| Autore: |
Worthen William B. <1955->
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| Titolo: |
Modern drama and the rhetoric of theater / / W. B. Worthen
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| Pubblicazione: | Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , 1992 |
| ©1992 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (241 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 822/.9109 |
| Soggetto topico: | English drama - 20th century - History and criticism |
| American drama - 20th century - History and criticism | |
| Theater - Production and direction - History - 20th century | |
| Theater - English-speaking countries - History - 20th century | |
| Soggetto non controllato: | american 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 | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 -- Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | The 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Modern drama and the rhetoric of theater |
| ISBN: | 0-520-96304-0 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910788157503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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