Drama In Performance - Brossura

Williams, .

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ISBN 10: 0335096581 ISBN 13: 9780335096589

Casa editrice: Open University Press, 1991

Riassunto

Raymond Williams' reputation rests mainly on his contribution to literary and cultural studies, but he was also an important critic and theoretician in the field of drama. "Drama in Performance", first published in 1954, pioneered a method of dramaturgical rather than literary-critical analysis of plays, locating dramatic texts in the conditions and conventions of their original performance and reading them to disclose their performance potentialities. This method, which anticipated such contemporary developments as performance analysis and the semiotics of drama, is here applied to representative texts from key periods of the history of drama: the Greek stage, the medieval theatre-in-the-round and pageant-wagon, the Elizabethan public playhouse, London commercial theatres from the Restoration to the late 19th century, the naturalist stage of the Moscow Art Theatre, 20th century experimental drama, and contemporary film.

This edition presents the text as Williams revised it in 1966. In addition it provides an updated bibliography of work in this field, a complete listing of all Williams' relevant writings, and a new Introduction (by Graham Holderness) which locates the book both within modern dramatic theory and criticism and within Williams' own work and demonstrates its continuing challenge and relevance.

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Contenuti:

"Antigone" by Sophocles
English medieval drama
"Antony and Cleopatra" by Shakespeare
plays in transition
"The Seagull" by Chekhov
modern experimental drama
"Wild Strawberries" by Ingmar Bergman
argument - text and performance

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Book by Williams

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• Editore: Open University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0335096581
• ISBN 13: 9780335096589
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 200