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Drama [Book] : between poetry and performance / W.B. Worthen.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Malden, MA : Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.Description: xx, 277 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781405153416 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 1405153415 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 9781405153423 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 1405153423 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 809.2 22
Other classification:
  • 809.2
Summary: An engaging book spanning the fields of drama, literary criticism,genre, and performance studies, Drama: Between Poetry andPerformance teaches students how to read drama by exploring thethreshold between text and performance. Draws on examples from major playwrights including Shakespeare,Ibsen, Beckett, and Parks Explores the critical terms and controversies that animate theperformance and study of drama, such as the status of language, thefunction of character and plot, and uses of writing Engages in a theoretical, disciplinary, and culturalrepositioning of drama, by exploring and contesting its position atthe threshold between text and performance
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An engaging book spanning the fields of drama, literary criticism,genre, and performance studies, Drama: Between Poetry andPerformance teaches students how to read drama by exploring thethreshold between text and performance. Draws on examples from major playwrights including Shakespeare,Ibsen, Beckett, and Parks Explores the critical terms and controversies that animate theperformance and study of drama, such as the status of language, thefunction of character and plot, and uses of writing Engages in a theoretical, disciplinary, and culturalrepositioning of drama, by exploring and contesting its position atthe threshold between text and performance

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