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Overview"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." Full Product DetailsAuthor: W. B. WorthenPublisher: University of California Press Imprint: University of California Press Edition: First Edition, None ed. Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.363kg ISBN: 9780520286870ISBN 10: 0520286871 Pages: 240 Publication Date: 30 January 2015 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationW. B. Worthen is Alice Brady Pels Professor in the Arts, and Professor and Chair of the Department of Theatre at Barnard College, Columbia University; he also serves as Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia, and as co-chair of the Ph.D. in Theatre Program. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |