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
Product Identifiers
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
ISBN-13
9781405153416
eBay Product ID (ePID)
96811483
Product Key Features
Book Title
Drama: between Poetry and Performance
Author
w. B. Worthen
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Literature
Publication Year
2009
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
239mm
Item Width
161mm
Item Weight
548g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
w. B. Worthen
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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