Modern Drama and the Rhetoric of Theater

by W.B. Worthen

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0520286871

ISBN13:9780520286870

Release Date:January 2015

Publisher:University of California Press

Length:240 Pages

Weight:0.75 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"

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Arts, Music & Photography Drama Language Arts Performing Arts

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