Plays of impasse : contemporary drama set in confining institutions / by Carol Rosen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rosen, Carol, 1950- author.

Series:

Princeton legacy library.

Princeton Legacy Library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Drama.

Setting (Literature).

Institutional care in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (357 pages).

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1983.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This work probes the structure and significance of the increasingly numerous and highly visible plays set in contemporary society's dead ends the hospitals, insane asylums, prisons, and military training camps so aptly described by Erving Goffman as total institutions." Carol Rosen shows how the setting in these plays tends to engulf and then to exclude the audience, turning an encompassing stage structure a closed, controlling, absolute system into a protagonist that overwhelms the characters.Originally published in 1983.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Photographs

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction

2. Killing Pain in the End Beds

3. Imagining Freedom at the Asylum

4. Passing Time Behind Bars

5. Acting Tough in the Barracks

6. A Dream of Order

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780691613260

0691613265

9780691628820

0691628823

OCLC:

981989133