Beschreibung:
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
Introduction: Fond Records: Metaphors of DramaChapter 1. More than is Dreamt of: Between Literature and Performance StudiesChapter 2. The Name of Action: Thinking through the PlotChapter 3. Words, Words, Words: Thinking through PoetryChapter 4: The Censure of Seeming: Thinking through CharacterChapter 5: The Faculty of Eyes and Ears: Thinking through Spectacle