Drama : between poetry and performance

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Drama : between poetry and performance

W.B. Worthen

Wiley-Blackwell, 2010

  • : hbk
  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-260) and index

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: hbk ISBN 9781405153416

内容説明

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

目次

  • Acknowledgments. Preface: Drama, Poetry, and Performance. Introduction: Between Poetry and Performance. i. Shakespeare 3.0. ii. Images of Writing/Metaphors of Performance. The score. The blueprint. Information/software. Dramatic tools, performance technologies. iii. Agencies of Drama: Burke, Poetry, and Performance. Writing as agency: "Antony in Behalf of the Play". 1. From Poetry to Performance. i. Dramatic Performance and its Discontents: The New Criticism. Drama, poetry, and "interpretation". "An arrangement of words". Acts of speech. Heresy, responsibility, and performance. ii. Dramatic Writing and its Discontents: Performance Studies, Drama Studies. Antigone's bones. The "theater of acting". Rethinking writing. 2. Performing Writing: Hamlet. i. Hamlet's Book. Playing the book. The law of writ. Speaking by the card. ii. Corrupt Stuff
  • or, Doing Things with (Old) Words. The crux of performance. Enseamed beds. iii. "OK, we can skip to the book": The Wooster Group Hamlet. Theatrofilm by Electronovision. (Re)playing Burton, performing Hamlet. 3. Embodying Writing: Ibsen and Parks. i. Can We Act What We Say?: Rosmersholm. Inscribing character. Acting the role. Confession, disclosure, detour. Doing (unspeakable) things with words. ii. Footnoting Performance: The America Play and Venus. A wink to Mr. Lincolns pasteboard cutout. Diggidy-diggidy-diggidy-dawg. 4. Writing Space: Beckett and Brecht. i. Quad : Euclidean Dramaturgies. ii. By Accepting This License. iii. What Where: Brechtian Technologies. Notes. Works Cited. Further Reading. Index.
巻冊次

: pbk ISBN 9781405153423

内容説明

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

目次

  • Acknowledgments ix Preface: Drama, Poetry, and Performance xi Introduction: Between Poetry and Performance 1 i. Shakespeare 3.0 2 ii. Images of Writing/Metaphors of Performance 8 The score 8 The blueprint 12 Information/software 13 Dramatic tools, performance technologies 20 iii. Agencies of Drama: Burke, Poetry, and Performance 22 Writing as agency: "Antony in Behalf of the Play" 29 1 From Poetry to Performance 35 i. Dramatic Performance and its Discontents: The New Criticism 39 Drama, poetry, and "interpretation" 39 "An arrangement of words" 45 Acts of speech 50 Heresy, responsibility, and performance 56 ii. Dramatic Writing and its Discontents: Performance Studies, Drama Studies 64 Antigone's bones 64 The "theater of acting" 69 Rethinking writing 77 2 Performing Writing: Hamlet 94 i. Hamlet's Book 97 Playing the book 97 The law of writ 101 Speaking by the card 106 ii. Corrupt Stuff
  • or, Doing Things with (Old) Words 112 The crux of performance 113 Enseamed beds 118 iii. "OK, we can skip to the book": The Wooster Group Hamlet 123 Theatrofilm by Electronovision 127 (Re)playing Burton, performing Hamlet 130 3 Embodying Writing: Ibsen and Parks 139 i. Can We Act What We Say?: Rosmersholm 142 Inscribing character 147 Acting the role 150 Confession, disclosure, detour 152 Doing (unspeakable) things with words 158 ii. Footnoting Performance: The America Play and Venus 161 A wink to Mr. Lincolns pasteboard cutout 172 Diggidy-diggidy-diggidy-dawg 178 4 Writing Space: Beckett and Brecht 192 i. Quad: Euclidean Dramaturgies 196 ii. By Accepting This License 205 iii. What Where: Brechtian Technologies 211 Notes 216 Works Cited 239 Further Reading 258 Index 261

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