Castagno New Playwriting Strategies

A Language-Based Approach to Playwriting
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-135-86646-4
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 192 Seiten

New Playwriting Strategies offers a fresh and dynamic approach to playwriting that will be welcomed by teachers and aspiring playwrights alike.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Castagno, Paul C.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction
Part I: The Language Playwright
Chapter 1: The Playwright's Two Voices
Chapter 2: Dialogic Applications and Practices
Part II: The Dramaturgy of New Playwriting: From Building Blocks to Revision
Chapter 3: The Poetics of New Playwriting
Chapter 4: Defining, Rewriting and Refining the Script
Part III: Monologic Structures: From Orthodoxy to Innovation
Chapter 5: "Show us, don't tell us"
Chapter 6: Toward Dialogic Monologue in New Playwriting
Part IV: Formulating Character
Chapter 7: Establishing New Approaches to Character
Chapter 8: Len Jenkin's Dramaturgy of Character: Stage Figures to Archetypes
Chapter 9: Eric Overmyer: Some Principles of Character Transformation
Chapter 10: Mac Wellman: Language-based Character
Works Cited
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Paul C. Castagno is Professor of Theatre at UNC-Wilmington where he served as founding chair of the Department of Theatre. He formerly served as Director and Head of M.A. Programs of the School of Theater at Ohio University, and headed the MFA Playwriting/Dramaturgy Programs at University of Alabama. He teaches playwriting, dramatic literature and directs, and has published books and/or articles on playwriting and commedia dell’arte.