The Theory of the Modern Stage

The Theory of the Modern Stage

Author: Eric Bentley

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 500

ISBN-13: 9781557832795

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(Applause Books). Including Antoin Artaud, Bertolt Brecht, E. Gordon Craig, Luigi Pirandello, Konstantin Stanislavsky, W. B. Yeats, and Emile Zolaing.


Staging Place

Staging Place

Author: Una Chaudhuri

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 9780472065899

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The first book-length study of the notion of place and its implications in modern drama


Celan Studies

Celan Studies

Author: Peter Szondi

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 9780804744027

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Peter Szondi's Celan Studies marked the beginning of critical work on Paul Celan, the most important German poet of the second half of the twentieth century. The book's three studies each concentrate on a different Celan poem. "The Poetry of Constancy: Paul Celan's Translation of Shakespeare's Sonnet 105" investigates a historical turn from a poetry that claims to present its object to a poetry that only promises to do so. "Reading 'Engführung'" follows the movement of poetic language into territory undisclosed to epistemic reason. "Eden" addresses "Du liegst," a poem on the murder of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht; Szondi actually was with Celan when the poem was written. It analyzes the relation between the historical facts to which a poem refers and its composition. The book contains, as appendixes, Szondi's notes for three more projected studies of Celan poems, left unwritten at the time of his death in 1971.


The Myth of Identity in Modern Drama

The Myth of Identity in Modern Drama

Author: Jeremy Ekberg

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2015-09-18

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 1443883360

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The Myth of Identity in Modern Drama is the first book-length study on existential authenticity and its relation to ontological embodiment treated via analyses of characters of modern drama. Furthermore, it offers new methods of exploring characters and characterization and new ways of thinking about identity. Through its investigations of the plays of Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco and Jean-Paul Sartre, the book shows that the study of embodiment will allow for a new method of analyzing characters and how they form, or attempt to form, ever-changing identities.


An Essay on the Tragic

An Essay on the Tragic

Author: Peter Szondi

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780804743952

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This is a succinct and elegant argument for the specificity of a philosophy of tragedy, as opposed to a poetics of tragedy espoused by Aristotle.


The Risk Theatre Model of Tragedy

The Risk Theatre Model of Tragedy

Author: Edwin Wong

Publisher: FriesenPress

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 363

ISBN-13: 1525537555

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WHEN YOU LEAST EXPECT IT, BIRNAM WOOD COMES TO DUNSINANE HILL The Risk Theatre Model of Tragedy presents a profoundly original theory of drama that speaks to modern audiences living in an increasingly volatile world driven by artificial intelligence, gene editing, globalization, and mutual assured destruction ideologies. Tragedy, according to risk theatre, puts us face to face with the unexpected implications of our actions by simulating the profound impact of highly improbable events. In this book, classicist Edwin Wong shows how tragedy imitates reality: heroes, by taking inordinate risks, trigger devastating low-probability, high-consequence outcomes. Such a theatre forces audiences to ask themselves a most timely question---what happens when the perfect bet goes wrong? Not only does Wong reinterpret classic tragedies from Aeschylus to O’Neill through the risk theatre lens, he also invites dramatists to create tomorrow’s theatre. As the world becomes increasingly unpredictable, the most compelling dramas will be high-stakes tragedies that dramatize the unintended consequences of today's risk takers who are taking us past the point of no return.


Postmodern/drama

Postmodern/drama

Author: Stephen Watt

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780472108725

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Scrutinizing the critical tendency to label texts or writers as "postmodern", scholar Stephen Watt argues that "reading post modernly" merely implies reading culture more broadly. In contemporary drama, Watt considers postmodernity less a question of genre or media than a mode of subjectivity shared by both playwright and audience. 6 illustrations.