Reading Modern Drama
Reading Modern Drama

Author: Alan Louis Ackerman

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781442612815

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Exploring the relationship between dramatic language and its theatrical aspects, Reading Modern Drama provides an accessible entry point for general readers and academics into the world of contemporary theatre scholarship. This collection promotes the use of diverse perspectives and critical methods to explore the common theme of language as well as the continued relevance of modern drama in our lives. Reading Modern Drama offers provocative close readings of both canonical and lesser-known plays, from Hedda Gabler to e.e. cummings' Him. Taken together, these essays enter into an ongoing, fruitful debate about the terms 'modern' and 'drama' and build a much-needed bridge between literary studies and performance studies.

Reading Modern Drama
Reading Modern Drama

Author: Alan Ackerman

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2012-04-25

Total Pages: 489

ISBN-13: 1442661496

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Exploring the relationship between dramatic language and its theatrical aspects, Reading Modern Drama provides an accessible entry point for general readers and academics into the world of contemporary theatre scholarship. This collection promotes the use of diverse perspectives and critical methods to explore the common theme of language as well as the continued relevance of modern drama in our lives. Reading Modern Drama offers provocative close readings of both canonical and lesser-known plays, from Hedda Gabler to e.e. cummings' Him. Taken together, these essays enter into an ongoing, fruitful debate about the terms 'modern' and 'drama' and build a much-needed bridge between literary studies and performance studies.

The Making of Modern Drama
The Making of Modern Drama

Author: Richard Gilman

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2000-01-01

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780300079029

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This critical exploration of modern drama begins with Büchner and Ibsen and then discusses the major playwrights who have shaped modern theater. A new introduction by the author assesses developments of recent years.

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.

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

The Book of the Play
The Book of the Play

Author: Marta Straznicky

Publisher: Massachusetts Studies in Early

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13:

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This collection of essays examines early modern drama in the context of book history, and focuses on the readership of plays that opens different perspectives on the relationship between the cultures of print and performance.

Modern Dramatists
Modern Dramatists

Author: Kimball King

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-04-03

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 1136521194

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This comprehensive collection gathers critical essays on the major works of the foremost American and British playwrights of the 20th century, written by leading figures in drama/performance studies.

Modern Drama
Modern Drama

Author: Kirsten Shepherd-Barr

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 153

ISBN-13: 0199658773

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This book tells the story of modern drama through its seminal, groundbreaking plays and performances, and the artistic diversity that these represent. Exploring the new note of artistic hostility between dramatists and their audience, Shepherd-Barr draws on a range of theories and performances to reveal what makes modern drama 'modern'.