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Paperback Modern Drama and the Rhetoric of Theater Book

ISBN: 0520286871

ISBN13: 9780520286870

Modern Drama and the Rhetoric of Theater

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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...

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