Modern Drama And The Rhetoric Of Theater
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Author |
: W. B. Worthen |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 240 |
Release |
: 2015-01-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780520286870 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0520286871 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (70 Downloads) |
Synopsis Modern Drama and the Rhetoric of Theater by : W. B. Worthen
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.
Author |
: William B. Worthen |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 230 |
Release |
: 1992 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0685526836 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780685526835 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Synopsis Modern Drama and the Rhetoric of Theater by : William B. Worthen
In Modern Drama and the Rhetoric of Theater, W.B. Worthen examines how the dynamic interplay between dramatic text and stage production shapes the audience's experience in the modern theater. Dividing the "rhetoric" of theatrical performance into three modes--realistic, poetic, and political--Worthen traces the course of British and American drama from the 1880s through the 1980s, showing how textual conventions and performance practices direct the interpretive performance of the theater audience. The realistic theater translates the objectivity associated with science into a vehicle for treating social class. Worthen examines realism's onstage representation of social "others" for an invisible, privileged offstage audience; he discusses the problem drama of the turn of the century (Robins, Shaw, Galsworthy, Glaspell), the experiments of O'Neill, Rice, and the American Method, and the contemporary realism of Pinter, Shepard and Bond. Where realistic theater relies on the "natural" qualities of the stage scene, poetic theater uses the poet's word, the text, to control performance. The plays of Yeats, Auden, Eliot, and Beckett explore the kinds of authority--over actors and audiences--that poetic theater can achieve. Modern political theater, by contrast, openly places the audience at the center of its rhetorical designs, and the drama of the postwar period (Barnes, Brenton, Churchill, Fornes, Nichols, Osborne, Soyinka) is shown to develop a range of post-Brechtian practices that make the audience the subject of the play. Treating a wide variety of plays and drawing extensively on performance history, Modern Drama and the Rhetoric of Theater outlines the strategies that have produced both the modern drama onstage and the modern audience in the theater.
Author |
: William B. Worthen |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 239 |
Release |
: 1992 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:232535956 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Synopsis Modern Drama and the Rhetoric of Theatre by : William B. Worthen
Author |
: W. B. Worthen |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 236 |
Release |
: 2005 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521841844 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521841849 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Synopsis Print and the Poetics of Modern Drama by : W. B. Worthen
In Print and the Poetics of Modern Drama, W. B. Worthen asks how the print form of drama bears on how we understand its dual identity.
Author |
: William B. Worthen |
Publisher |
: Cengage Learning |
Total Pages |
: 1012 |
Release |
: 2002 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0155063952 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780155063952 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Harcourt Anthology of Drama by : William B. Worthen
" ... offers a convenient collection of classic and contemporary plays from Europe, the Americas, Africa, and Asia. Designed to be used in a variety of drama and theater courses, in general surveys of drama and theater, in courses on tragedy and/or comedy, or in classes on modern theater ..."--Pref.
Author |
: DS Mayfield |
Publisher |
: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages |
: 254 |
Release |
: 2017-03-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783110484663 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3110484668 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (63 Downloads) |
Synopsis Rhetoric and Drama by : DS Mayfield
Proving fruitful in various applications throughout its two millennia of predominance, the rhetorical téchne appears to have entertained a particularly symbiotic interrelation with drama. With contributions from (among others) a Classicist, historical, linguistic, musicological, operatic, cultural and literary studies perspective, this publication offers interdisciplinary assessments of specific reciprocities between the system of rhetoric and dramatic works: tracing the longue durée of this nexus—highlighting its Ancient foundations, its various Early Modern formations, as well as certain configurations enduring to this day—enables describing shifting degrees of rhetoricity; approaching it from an interdisciplinary viewpoint facilitates focusing on the often sidelined rhetorical phenomena located beyond the textual plane, specifically memoria and actio; tackling this interchange from various viewpoints and with diverse emphases, a long-lasting and highly prolific cross-fertilization between drama and rhetoric is rendered visible. In tendering a balanced panorama of both detailed case studies and descriptive overviews, this volume also points toward terrain yet to be charted in the scholarship to come. The volume was prepared in co-operation with the ERC Advanced Grant Project Early Modern European Drama and the Cultural Net (DramaNet).
Author |
: William B. Worthen |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 277 |
Release |
: 2010 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:1310590477 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis Drama by : William B. Worthen
Author |
: W. B. Worthen |
Publisher |
: Wiley-Blackwell |
Total Pages |
: 304 |
Release |
: 2010-01-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1405153415 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781405153416 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis Drama by : W. B. Worthen
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
Author |
: William B. Worthen |
Publisher |
: Wadsworth Publishing Company |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2011 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1428288147 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781428288140 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Wadsworth Anthology of Drama by : William B. Worthen
Consistently daring while being solid, W.B. Worthen's selection of plays now includes topical and provocative pieces like Sophie Treadwell's Machinal and classroom favorites like William Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream, Luis Valdez's Los vendidos, and Nobel Laureate Gao Xingjian's The Other Shore. --Book Jacket.
Author |
: Michael John MacDonald |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 844 |
Release |
: 2017 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199731596 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199731594 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (96 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Rhetorical Studies by : Michael John MacDonald
Featuring roughly sixty specially commissioned essays by an international cast of leading rhetoric experts from North America, Europe, and Great Britain, the Handbook will offer readers a comprehensive topical and historical survey of the theory and practice of rhetoric from ancient Greece and Rome through the Middle Ages and Enlightenment up to the present day.