Modern drama and the rhetoric of theater

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Modern drama and the rhetoric of theater

W.B. Worthen

University of California Press, c1992

  • : cloth
  • : pbk

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注記

Bibliography: p. 205-219

Includes index

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巻冊次

: cloth ISBN 9780520074682

内容説明

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" theatre relies on the "natural" qualities of the stage scene, "poetic" theatre uses the poet's world, the text, to control performance. Modern "political" theatre, 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.
巻冊次

: pbk ISBN 9780520286870

内容説明

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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