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Author | : Alan Louis Ackerman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9781442612815 |
Exploring the relationship between dramatic language and its theatrical aspects, Reading Modern Drama provides an accessible entry point for general readers and academics into the world of contemporary theatre scholarship. This collection promotes the use of diverse perspectives and critical methods to explore the common theme of language as well as the continued relevance of modern drama in our lives. Reading Modern Drama offers provocative close readings of both canonical and lesser-known plays, from Hedda Gabler to e.e. cummings' Him. Taken together, these essays enter into an ongoing, fruitful debate about the terms 'modern' and 'drama' and build a much-needed bridge between literary studies and performance studies.
Author | : Alan Ackerman |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 489 |
Release | : 2012-04-25 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1442661496 |
Exploring the relationship between dramatic language and its theatrical aspects, Reading Modern Drama provides an accessible entry point for general readers and academics into the world of contemporary theatre scholarship. This collection promotes the use of diverse perspectives and critical methods to explore the common theme of language as well as the continued relevance of modern drama in our lives. Reading Modern Drama offers provocative close readings of both canonical and lesser-known plays, from Hedda Gabler to e.e. cummings' Him. Taken together, these essays enter into an ongoing, fruitful debate about the terms 'modern' and 'drama' and build a much-needed bridge between literary studies and performance studies.
Author | : Richard Gilman |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2000-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780300079029 |
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 | : Stephen Watt |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780472108725 |
Scrutinizing the critical tendency to label texts or writers as "postmodern", scholar Stephen Watt argues that "reading post modernly" merely implies reading culture more broadly. In contemporary drama, Watt considers postmodernity less a question of genre or media than a mode of subjectivity shared by both playwright and audience. 6 illustrations.
Author | : Una Chaudhuri |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780472065899 |
The first book-length study of the notion of place and its implications in modern drama
Author | : Günter Reichert |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9783454661003 |
Author | : Marta Straznicky |
Publisher | : Massachusetts Studies in Early |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
This collection of essays examines early modern drama in the context of book history, and focuses on the readership of plays that opens different perspectives on the relationship between the cultures of print and performance.
Author | : Kimball King |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 2013-04-03 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1136521194 |
This comprehensive collection gathers critical essays on the major works of the foremost American and British playwrights of the 20th century, written by leading figures in drama/performance studies.
Author | : Günter Reichert |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9783454660501 |
Author | : Kirsten Shepherd-Barr |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 153 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0199658773 |
This book tells the story of modern drama through its seminal, groundbreaking plays and performances, and the artistic diversity that these represent. Exploring the new note of artistic hostility between dramatists and their audience, Shepherd-Barr draws on a range of theories and performances to reveal what makes modern drama 'modern'.