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Modern Drama and the Rhetoric of Theater

Modern Drama and the Rhetoric of Theater( )
Author: Worthen, W. B.
ISBN:978-0-520-28687-0
Publication Date:Jan 2015
Publisher:University of California Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $39.95
Book Description:

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"...
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Book Details
Pages:240
Detailed Subjects: Performing Arts / Theater / Direction & Production
Literary Criticism / Drama
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6 x 9 x 0.7 Inches
Book Weight:0.8 Pounds



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