Words for the Theatre
Four Essays on the Dramatic Text
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2020
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-72805-2 (ISBN)
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-72805-2 (ISBN)
In Words for the Theatre, playwright David Cole pursues a course of dramaturgical self-questioning on the part of a playwright, centred on the act of playwriting.
The book’s four essays each offer a dramaturgical perspective on a different aspect of the playwright’s practice: How does the playwright juggle the transcriptive and prescriptive aspects of their activity? Does the ultimate performance of a playtext in fact represent something to which all writing aspires? Does the playwright’s process of withdrawing to create their text echo a similar process in the theatre more widely? Finally, how can the playwright counter theatre’s pervasive leaning towards the ‘mistake’ of realism?
Suited to playwrights, teachers, and higher-level students, this volume of essays offers reflections on the questions that confront every playwright, from an author well-versed in supplying words for the theatre.
The book’s four essays each offer a dramaturgical perspective on a different aspect of the playwright’s practice: How does the playwright juggle the transcriptive and prescriptive aspects of their activity? Does the ultimate performance of a playtext in fact represent something to which all writing aspires? Does the playwright’s process of withdrawing to create their text echo a similar process in the theatre more widely? Finally, how can the playwright counter theatre’s pervasive leaning towards the ‘mistake’ of realism?
Suited to playwrights, teachers, and higher-level students, this volume of essays offers reflections on the questions that confront every playwright, from an author well-versed in supplying words for the theatre.
David Cole is a playwright who has written two prior books of dramatic theory: The Theatrical Event and the Nathan Award-winning Acting as Reading. His plays may be found at www.davidcoleplaysandprose.com.
Preface: Words from a Playwright
Acknowledgments
ESSAY I: The Dramatic Text As Transcript and Prescription
ESSAY II: The Dramatic Text As Type of the Text
ESSAY III: The Theatre Wants to Go In
ESSAY IV: Theatre As an Event and Another Event; or, The Sorrows of Realism (Something like a manifesto)
Words for the Theatre
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 16.01.2021 |
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Reihe/Serie | Focus on Dramaturgy |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
Gewicht | 453 g |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre | |
ISBN-10 | 0-367-72805-2 / 0367728052 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-367-72805-2 / 9780367728052 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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