Modern Drama and the Rhetoric of Theater

Informationen zum Autor W. B. Worthen is Alice Brady Pels Professor in the Arts! and Professor and Chair of the Department of Theatre at Barnard College! Columbia University; he also serves as Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia! and as co-chair of the Ph.D. in Theatre Program. Klappentext "Strikingly original. . . . The first study of modern drama that takes the implicit or explicit presence of the audience into constant consideration."-Simon Williams! author of Shakespeare and the German Stage "Modern Drama and the Rhetoric of Theater is a book of unusual depth and rare intelligence?What decisively distinguishes Worthen's project from all others is the importance it accords to the audience! thereby extending one of the premises of theatre semiotics far beyond its usual! rather mechanical applications. " -Una Chaudhuri! The Drama Review   Zusammenfassung Tracing British and American stage drama from the 1880s onward, this book shows drama as the interplay of text, stage production, and audience. It identifies three rhetorical strategies that distinguish an O'Neill play from a Yeats, or these two from a Brecht.

Product details

• Authors: W. B. Worthen, W. B. Worthen
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.01.2015
• EAN: 9780520286870
• ISBN: 978-0-520-28687-0
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; USA, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, Theatre Studies, United Kingdom, Great Britain, United States of America, USA, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc