Offstage space, narrative, and the theatre of the imagination / William Gruber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gruber, William E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Offstage action (Drama).

Drama--Technique.

Drama.

Narration (Rhetoric).

Physical Description:

192 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

Summary:

Offstage Space, Narrative, and the Theatre of the Imagination is a study of extrascenic space and how playwrights have used narrative as an alternative to conventional scenic enactment. The book covers the work of writers as diverse as Euripides, Plautus, Shakespeare, Susan Glaspell, Gertrude Stein, Bertolt Brecht, Samuel Beckett, Marguerite Duras, Brian Friel, and Thomas Bernhard. William Gruber offers a wide-ranging overview of the dramaturgical choices dramatists make when they substitute imagined events for perceptual ones.

Contents:

Introduction: Sights unseen

Showing vs. telling

Against mimesis

Theaters of absence.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230622890

0230622895

OCLC:

429024068