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Based on the author's teaching methods and experience, Poetics of the Creative Process examines and analyzes the creative process of playwriting. It attempts to concretize the playwright's creative experience from the gestation of a dramatic idea to its expression as a theatrical performance.
List of contents
Chapter 1 Introduction: Drama and the Playwright: From Concept to Structure Chapter 2 The Creative Potential: The Tragic and Comedic Quest to the Illud Tempus Chapter 3 Mythic Expressions of the Creative Process: The Fateful/Fatal Paradox Chapter 4 Ritual Impulses and the Playwright: The Dramatic Structure Chapter 5 Visible Dramatic Vehicle and Its Ritual Implications: The Central Character Chapter 6 Ritual Scope: The Monologue and the Creative Challenge Chapter 7 Ritual Scope and Developments: The One-Act and Full-Length Chapter 8 Conclusion: Ritual Efficacies: The Illud Tempus Script Chapter 9 Appendix I: Organic Practicum: Development Exercises Chapter 10 Appendix II: A One-Act Monologue Chapter 11 Appendix III: Ritual Registers: Analysis of Text Chapter 12 Bibliography
About the author
Femi Euba is a Ph.D., MFA, MA., playwright, theater director, actor, novelist, and scholar. Currently Professor of Theatre and English at Louisiana State University, he studied acting at the Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama in England, Playwriting and African American Studies at Yale, and Literature-in-English at the University of Ife, now Obafemi Awolowo University. His works include Archetypes, Imprecators, and Victims of Fate; Poetics of the Creative Process; Camwood at Crossroads, a novel; the BBC Radio plays; and full-length plays such as The Eye of Gabriel and Dionysus of the Holocaust.
Summary
Based on the author's teaching methods and experience, Poetics of the Creative Process examines and analyzes the creative process of playwriting. It attempts to concretize the playwright's creative experience from the gestation of a dramatic idea to its expression as a theatrical performance.
