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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.
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Genre |
: Drama |
Author |
: W. B. Worthen |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Release |
: 2015-01-30 |
File |
: 240 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780520286870 |
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BOOK EXCERPT:
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.
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Genre |
: Performing Arts |
Author |
: W. B. Worthen |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Release |
: 2015-02-14 |
File |
: 241 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780520963047 |
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This book works to 'make change strange' from and for the field of theatre and performance studies. Growing from the idea that change is an under-interrogated category that over-determines theatre and performance as an artistic, social, educational, and material practice, the scholars and practitioners gathered here (including specialists in theatre history and literature, educational theatre, youth arts, arts policy, socially invested theatre, and activist performance) take up the question of change in thirty-five short essays. For anyone who has wondered about the relationships between theatre, performance and change itself, this book is an essential conversation starter.
Product Details :
Genre |
: Performing Arts |
Author |
: Stephani Etheridge Woodson |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Release |
: 2017-12-01 |
File |
: 370 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9783319658285 |
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*A groundbreaking approach to drama criticism*
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Genre |
: Drama |
Author |
: Robert L. King |
Publisher |
: CUA Press |
Release |
: 2010-04-26 |
File |
: 249 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780813217413 |
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This new edition of the innovative and widely acclaimed Theatre Histories: An Introduction offers overviews of theatre and drama in many world cultures and periods together with case studies demonstrating the methods and interpretive approaches used by today's theatre historians. Completely revised and renewed in color, enhancements and new material include: a full-color text design with added timelines to each opening section a wealth of new color illustrations to help convey the vitality of performances described new case studies on African, Asian, and Western subjects a new chapter on modernism, and updated and expanded chapters and part introductions fuller definitions of terms and concepts throughout in a new glossary a re-designed support website offering links to new audio-visual resources, expanded bibliographies, approaches to teaching theatre and performance history, discussion questions relating to case studies and an online glossary.
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Genre |
: Performing Arts |
Author |
: Phillip B. Zarrilli |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Release |
: 2013-03-07 |
File |
: 656 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781134042944 |
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In Print and the Poetics of Modern Drama, W. B. Worthen asks how the print form of drama bears on how we understand its dual identity.
Product Details :
Genre |
: Drama |
Author |
: W. B. Worthen |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Release |
: 2005 |
File |
: 236 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 0521841844 |
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The book gathers together a particularly strong line-up of contributors from across the literary-performative divide to examine the relationship between Shakespeare, the 'culture industries', modernism and live performance.
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Genre |
: Literary Criticism |
Author |
: Michael Bristol |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Release |
: 2005-07-08 |
File |
: 220 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781134601196 |
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Proving fruitful in various applications throughout its two millennia of predominance, the rhetorical téchne appears to have entertained a particularly symbiotic interrelation with drama. With contributions from (among others) a Classicist, historical, linguistic, musicological, operatic, cultural and literary studies perspective, this publication offers interdisciplinary assessments of specific reciprocities between the system of rhetoric and dramatic works: tracing the longue durée of this nexus—highlighting its Ancient foundations, its various Early Modern formations, as well as certain configurations enduring to this day—enables describing shifting degrees of rhetoricity; approaching it from an interdisciplinary viewpoint facilitates focusing on the often sidelined rhetorical phenomena located beyond the textual plane, specifically memoria and actio; tackling this interchange from various viewpoints and with diverse emphases, a long-lasting and highly prolific cross-fertilization between drama and rhetoric is rendered visible. In tendering a balanced panorama of both detailed case studies and descriptive overviews, this volume also points toward terrain yet to be charted in the scholarship to come. The volume was prepared in co-operation with the ERC Advanced Grant Project Early Modern European Drama and the Cultural Net (DramaNet).
Product Details :
Genre |
: Language Arts & Disciplines |
Author |
: DS Mayfield |
Publisher |
: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Release |
: 2017-03-06 |
File |
: 254 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9783110484663 |
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Worthen uses contemporary Shakespeare performance to explore the technicity of theatre: its changing work as an intermedial technology.
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Genre |
: Drama |
Author |
: W. B. Worthen |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Release |
: 2020-04-23 |
File |
: 281 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781108498135 |
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Why did medieval dramatists weave so many scenes of torture into their plays? Exploring the cultural connections among rhetoric, law, drama, literary creation, and violence, Jody Enders addresses an issue that has long troubled students of the Middle Ages. Theories of rhetoric and law of the time reveal, she points out, that the ideology of torture was a widely accepted means for exploiting such essential elements of the stage and stagecraft as dramatic verisimilitude, pity, fear, and catharsis to fabricate truth. Analyzing the consequences of torture for the history of aesthetics in general and of drama in particular, Enders shows that if the violence embedded in the history of rhetoric is acknowledged, we are better able to understand not only the enduring "theater of cruelty" identified by theorists from Isidore of Seville to Antonin Artaud, but also the continuing modern devotion to the spectacle of pain.
Product Details :
Genre |
: History |
Author |
: Jody Enders |
Publisher |
: Cornell University Press |
Release |
: 2002 |
File |
: 292 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 0801487838 |