Author: Kenneth Pickering
Publisher: Palgrave
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 150

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Author: Barrett Harper Clark
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 552

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Author: Barrett H. Clark
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Richard Gilman
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300079029
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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This critical exploration of modern drama begins with Büchner and Ibsen and then discusses the major playwrights who have shaped modern theater. A new introduction by the author assesses developments of recent years.

Author: Caroline Baird
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030508579
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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This book is a close taxonomic study of the pivotal role of games in early modern drama. The presence of the game motif has often been noticed, but this study, the most comprehensive of its kind, shows how games operate in more complex ways than simple metaphor and can be syntheses of emblem and dramatic device. Drawing on seventeenth-century treatises, including Francis Willughby’s Book of Games, which only became available in print in 2003, and divided into chapters on Dice, Cards, Tables (Backgammon), and Chess, the book brings back into focus the symbolism and divinatory origins of games. The work of more than ten dramatists is analysed, from the Shakespeare and Middleton canon to rarer plays such as The Spanish Curate, The Two Angry Women of Abington and The Cittie Gallant. Games and theatre share common ground in terms of performance, deceit, plotting, risk and chance, and the early modern playhouse provided apt conditions for vicarious play. From the romantic chase to the financial gamble, and in legal contest and war, the twenty-first century is still engaging the game. With its extensive appendices, the book will appeal to readers interested in period games and those teaching or studying early modern drama, including theatre producers, and awareness of the vocabulary of period games will allow further references to be understood in non-dramatic texts.

Author: W. B. Worthen
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520286871
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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The history of drama is typically viewed as a series of inert "styles." Tracing British and American stage drama from the 1880s 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.

Author: Una Chaudhuri
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472065899
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 330

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The first book-length study of the notion of place and its implications in modern drama

Author: Barrett Harper Clark
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 527

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Author: Paul Rosefeldt
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 184

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"From the Freudians to the feminists, the role of the absent or hidden father figure has played a part in narrative and cultural theory. This work presents the first full-length examination of the absent father in modern drama. It closely analyzes major works by Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Williams, Miller, Shepard, Rabe, Henley, Norman, Pielmeier, Shaffer, Osborne, Churchill, and Fugard. Using the critical framework of psychological, deconstructive, and myth criticism, this book demonstrates how the consistent focus on an imposing father figure who never physically appears onstage affects the psychological, social, and metaphysical structure of major modern dramas."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author: Barrett Harper Clark
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 534

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