Modern Drama and the Rhetoric of Theater 9780520286870, 9780520963047, 0520286871

"The history of drama is typically viewed as a series of inert "styles." Tracing British and American sta

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English Pages x, 230 pages ; 23 cm Year 2015

Modern Drama and the Rhetoric of Theater
9780520286870, 9780520963047, 0520286871

Author / Uploaded
Worthen
William B

Table of contents :
1. Theater and the scene of vision --
2. Actors and objects --
3. Scripted bodies: poetic theater --
4. Political theater: staging the spectator --
Postscript. Sidi's Image: theater and the frame of culture.

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