Modern drama and the rhetoric of theater / W.B. Worthen
Publisher number: 19960716Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, 1992.Description: x, 230 p. ; 24 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:- 822.9109/WOR
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-219) and index. Chekhov's camera : the rhetoric of stage realism -- Invisible women : problem drama, 1890-1920 -- Invisible actors : O'Neill, the Method, and the masks of "character" -- Visible scenes : American realism and the absent audience -- Empty spaces and the power of privacy : Pinter, Shepard, and Bond -- Poetic theater and the work of acting -- The discipline of speech : Yeats's dance drama -- The discipline of performance : The dance of death and Murder in the cathedral -- The discipline of the text : Beckett's theater -- Transforming the field of theater -- Breaking the frame of history : Hitler dances and The Churchill play -- History and the frame of genre : Laughter! and Poppy -- Framing gender : Cloud nine and Fefu and her friends -- Postscript : Sidi's image : theater and the frame of culture. 0520074688 (cloth : alk. paper)