Fields of Play in Modern Drama
Hardcover
- Price:
- $96.00/拢80.00
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- Published:
- Apr 19, 2016
- Copyright:
- 1977
- Pages:
- 202
- Size:
- 6 x 9.25 in.
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Starting from the assumption that all theater is at least implicitly participatory, Professor Whitaker approaches thirteen plays, from Ibsen’s Rosmersholm to Beckett’s Endgame and Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. He asks the reader to commit himself to a variety of points of view鈥攖hose of witnesses, actors, directors, and characters鈥攁s a series of 鈥渃ritical fictions鈥 lead him toward the experience of each play in performance.
The author supplies detailed readings of the plays in various modes. The styles of the chapters vary according to the issues dominant in the plays discussed, and the reader experiences simultaneously a sense of approaching the meaning of performance and of gaining a deeper understanding of the play through a subtle and allusive commentary.
Originally published in 1977.
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