A Study Of Poetic Drama And Its Language In The Modern Theatre
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Six Dramatists in Search of a Language
Author | : Andrew K. Kennedy |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 1975-01-23 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780521204927 |
In this penetrating study Andrew Kennedy sets out to analyse the modern movement in drama through the theatrical language of six key figures writing in English - Shaw, Eliot, Beckett, Pinter, Osborne and Arden. Dr Kennedy argues that a study of theatrical language should be an exercise in 'practical criticism' and not merely narrowly linguistic. The whole range of theatrical expressiveness must be examined in detail from play text and performance alike and the conclusions correlated with the author's known intentions if a full evaluative judgement is to be attempted. Dr Kennedy shows how the modern movement in drama reveals a growing difficulty in creating any type of fully expressive dramatic language. He has written a work with an unusual breadth of reference, which should prove of value to all students of modern drama, modern English and European literature and to the theatre-going public.
Modern Drama and the Rhetoric of Theater
Author | : W. B. Worthen |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2015-01-30 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0520286871 |
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.
Drama
Author | : W. B. Worthen |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2010-01-21 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781444317381 |
An engaging book spanning the fields of drama, literary criticism, genre, and performance studies, Drama: Between Poetry and Performance teaches students how to read drama by exploring the threshold between text and performance. Draws on examples from major playwrights including Shakespeare, Ibsen, Beckett, and Parks Explores the critical terms and controversies that animate the performance and study of drama, such as the status of language, the function of character and plot, and uses of writing Engages in a theoretical, disciplinary, and cultural repositioning of drama, by exploring and contesting its position at the threshold between text and performance
Poetic Drama
Author | : Glenda Leeming |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
The Aims of Poetic Drama
Author | : Thomas Stearns Eliot |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 6 |
Release | : 1949 |
Genre | : Verse drama |
ISBN | : 9780848206888 |
Drama
Author | : W. B. Worthen |
Publisher | : Wiley-Blackwell |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2010-01-11 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781405153416 |
An engaging book spanning the fields of drama, literary criticism, genre, and performance studies, Drama: Between Poetry and Performance teaches students how to read drama by exploring the threshold between text and performance. Draws on examples from major playwrights including Shakespeare, Ibsen, Beckett, and Parks Explores the critical terms and controversies that animate the performance and study of drama, such as the status of language, the function of character and plot, and uses of writing Engages in a theoretical, disciplinary, and cultural repositioning of drama, by exploring and contesting its position at the threshold between text and performance
T.s. Eliot The Dramatist
Author | : Subhas Sarkar |
Publisher | : Atlantic Publishers & Dist |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Verse drama, American |
ISBN | : 9788126905928 |
Widely Acclaimed By Eliot Critics Both At Home And Abroad, The Book Has Been Mentioned In Various Reference Books Of International Renown, Such As The Dictionary Of Literary Biography (Gale Research Company, Detroit, Michigan, 1982, Vol. 10, Part-I), The International Authors And Writers Who S Who (International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, May 2000), A History Of Indian English Literature By M.K. Naik (Sahitya Akademi, 1982), Indian Journal Of American Studies (Vol. 18, No. 2, 1988), T.S. Eliot Centenary Number (American Studies Research Centre) And Various Other Books Of Reference.Professor Dame Helen Gardner From Oxford Wrote In 1974: I Have Read Your Book Now. It Seems To Me Well-Informed And Sensible And Sympathetic To Eliot S Aims While Recognizing His Defects As A Playwright. I Feel At Least Until The Letters Are Published, There Is Not A Great Deal More To Say. Dr. W.M. Merchant Of Exeter University Describes This Study As: Astonishing And Meticulous. Professor Amalendu Bose Says: The Present Work, Fruit Of Several Years Of Concentrated Study, Will Intensify The Eliot Admirer S Response As Much To The Poetry-Drama Relationship In The Master S Work As To The Variety And Beauty Of The Dramas Themselves. Professor K. Viswanatham Of Andhra University Wrote In 1973: I Am Sure Every Student Of Eliot Drama Will Look Into Your Book. It Is Scrupulously, Compellingly Documented.
The Aims of Poetic Drama
Author | : Thomas Stearns Eliot |
Publisher | : London, Eng. : Poet's Theatre Guild |
Total Pages | : 6 |
Release | : 1949 |
Genre | : Verse drama |
ISBN | : 9780841439214 |