{"product_id":"drama-9781405153423","title":"Drama","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn engaging book spanning the fields of drama, literary criticism, genre, and performance studies, \u003ci\u003eDrama: Between Poetry and Performance\u003c\/i\u003e teaches students how to read drama by exploring the threshold between text and performance.  \u003cul type=\"disc\"\u003e \u003cli\u003eDraws on examples from major playwrights including Shakespeare, Ibsen, Beckett, and Parks\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplores the critical terms and controversies that animate the performance and study of drama, such as the status of language, the function of character and plot, and uses of writing\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eEngages in a theoretical, disciplinary, and cultural repositioning of drama, by exploring and contesting its position at the threshold between text and performance\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface: Drama, Poetry, and Performance xi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroduction: Between Poetry and Performance 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ei. Shakespeare 3.0 2\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eii. Images of Writing\/Metaphors of Performance 8\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe score 8\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe blueprint 12\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInformation\/software 13\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDramatic tools, performance technologies 20\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eiii. Agencies of Drama: Burke, Poetry, and Performance 22\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWriting as agency: “Antony in Behalf of the Play” 29\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 From Poetry to Performance 35\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ei. Dramatic Performance and its Discontents: The New Criticism 39\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDrama, poetry, and “interpretation” 39\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“An arrangement of words” 45\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eActs of speech 50\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHeresy, responsibility, and performance 56\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eii. Dramatic Writing and its Discontents: Performance Studies, Drama Studies 64\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAntigone’s bones 64\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe “theater of acting” 69\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRethinking writing 77\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 Performing Writing: Hamlet 94\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ei. Hamlet’s Book 97\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePlaying the book 97\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe law of writ 101\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSpeaking by the card 106\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eii. Corrupt Stuff; or, Doing Things with (Old) Words 112\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe crux of performance 113\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEnseamed beds 118\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eiii. “OK, we can skip to the book”: The Wooster Group Hamlet 123\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTheatrofilm by Electronovision 127\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(Re)playing Burton, performing Hamlet 130\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 Embodying Writing: Ibsen and Parks 139\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ei. Can We Act What We Say?: Rosmersholm 142\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInscribing character 147\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eActing the role 150\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConfession, disclosure, detour 152\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDoing (unspeakable) things with words 158\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eii. Footnoting Performance: The America Play and Venus 161\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA wink to Mr. Lincolns pasteboard cutout 172\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDiggidy-diggidy-diggidy-dawg 178\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 Writing Space: Beckett and Brecht 192\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ei. Quad: Euclidean Dramaturgies 196\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eii. By Accepting This License 205\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eiii. What Where: Brechtian Technologies 211\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Notes 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Works Cited 239\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Further Reading 258\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Index 261\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407886623063,"sku":"9781405153423","price":30.35,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781405153423.jpg?v=1730500852","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/drama-9781405153423","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}