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Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library

Whitaker Fields of Play in Modern Drama


1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-4008-7177-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
 Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 202 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library

ISBN: 978-1-4008-7177-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
 Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

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—those of witnesses, actors, directors, and characters—as a series of "critical fictions" 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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Autoren/Hrsg.

Whitaker, Thomas R.

Fachgebiete

Weitere Infos & Material

Frontmatter, pg. i
Contents, pg. v
A Retrospective Word, pg. 1
One: Speaking of Playing, pg. 5
Two: Playing the Player, pg. 9
Three: Killing Ourselves, pg. 35
Four: Seeing the Hidden, pg. 58
Five: Dreaming the Music, pg. 79
Six: Undoing, pg. 102
Seven: Bearing Witness, pg. 126
Some Texts Behind the Text, pg. 179
Index, pg. 189

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