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

• Autore: Castagno Paul C. <1950-, >
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2012
• Edizione: 2nd ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (266 p.)
• Disciplina: 808.2
• Soggetto topico: Playwriting
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: New playwriting strategies
• ISBN: 1-136-63080-5; 1-283-44275-2; 9786613442758; 0-203-80301-9; 1-136-63081-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910808326903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II