Reading Modern Drama / Alan Ackerman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ackerman, Alan L..

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drama--19th century--History and criticism.

Drama.

Drama--20th century--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (315 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2017]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Taken together, these essays enter into an ongoing, fruitful debate about the terms 'modern' and 'drama' and build a much-needed bridge between literary studies and performance studies.

Contents:

Gossip girls: Lady Teazle, Nora Helmer, and invisible-hand drama / Joseph Roach

"Vinlov i håret": the relationship between women, language, and power in Ibsen's Hedda Gabler / Tanya Thresher

"Silencio, he dicho!": space, language, and characterization as agents of social protest in Lorca's rural tragedies / Bilha Blum

The money shot: economies of sex, guns, and language in Topdog/Underdog / Myka Tucker-Abramson

The space stage and the circus: e.e. cummings's Him and Frederick Kiesler's Raumbühne / Allison Carruth

How to do nothing with words, or waiting for Godot as performativity / Richard Begam

Reinventing Beckett / S.E. Gontarski

Uncloseting drama: Gertrude Stein and the Wooster Group / Nick Salvato

Synge's Playboy and the eugenics of language / Nicholas Crawford

The Pillowman and the ethics of allegory / Hana Worthen and W.B. Worthen

Cognitive catharsis in The Caucasian chalk circle / R. Darren Gobert

Jane Harrison and the savage Dionysus: archaeological voyages, ritual origins, anthropology, and the modern theatre / Julie Stone Peters.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 13. Sep 2017)

ISBN:

1-4426-6149-6

1-4426-6148-8

OCLC:

812253912