An engaging book spanning the fields of drama, literary criticism,
genre, and performance studies, Drama: Between Poetry and
Performance teaches students how to read drama by exploring the
threshold between text and performance.
* Draws on examples from major playwrights including Shakespeare,
Ibsen, Beckett, and Parks
* Explores 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
* Engages in a theoretical, disciplinary, and cultural
repositioning of drama, by exploring and contesting its position at
the threshold between text and performance
İçerik tablosu
Acknowledgments ix
Preface: Drama, Poetry, and Performance xi
Introduction: Between Poetry and Performance 1
i. Shakespeare 3.0 2
ii. Images of Writing/Metaphors of Performance 8
The score 8
The blueprint 12
Information/software 13
Dramatic tools, performance technologies 20
iii. Agencies of Drama: Burke, Poetry, and Performance 22
Writing as agency: ‘Antony in Behalf of the Play’ 29
1 From Poetry to Performance 35
i. Dramatic Performance and its Discontents: The New Criticism 39
Drama, poetry, and ‘interpretation’ 39
‘An arrangement of words’ 45
Acts of speech 50
Heresy, responsibility, and performance 56
ii. Dramatic Writing and its Discontents: Performance Studies, Drama Studies 64
Antigone’s bones 64
The ‘theater of acting’ 69
Rethinking writing 77
2 Performing Writing: Hamlet 94
i. Hamlet’s Book 97
Playing the book 97
The law of writ 101
Speaking by the card 106
ii. Corrupt Stuff; or, Doing Things with (Old) Words 112
The crux of performance 113
Enseamed beds 118
iii. ‘OK, we can skip to the book’: The Wooster Group Hamlet 123
Theatrofilm by Electronovision 127
(Re)playing Burton, performing Hamlet 130
3 Embodying Writing: Ibsen and Parks 139
i. Can We Act What We Say?: Rosmersholm 142
Inscribing character 147
Acting the role 150
Confession, disclosure, detour 152
Doing (unspeakable) things with words 158
ii. Footnoting Performance: The America Play and Venus 161
A wink to Mr. Lincolns pasteboard cutout 172
Diggidy-diggidy-diggidy-dawg 178
4 Writing Space: Beckett and Brecht 192
i. Quad: Euclidean Dramaturgies 196
ii. By Accepting This License 205
iii. What Where: Brechtian Technologies 211
Notes 216
Works Cited 239
Further Reading 258
Index 261
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W. B. Worthen is Professor and Chair of the Department of Theatre at Barnard College, Columbia University. He is the author of The Idea of the Actor (1984), Modern Drama and the Rhetoric of Theater (1992), Shakespeare and the Authority of Performance (1997), Shakespeare and the Force of Modern Performance (2003), and Print and the Poetics of Modern Drama (2006). He is also the editor of several volumes, including A Companion to Shakespeare and Performance (with Barbara Hodgdon, Wiley-Blackwell 2005), and the Wadsworth Anthology of Drama, 5th edition (2006).
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