Modern Drama and the Rhetoric of Theater

by W.B. Worthen

Book Overview

The history of drama is typically viewed as a series of inert "styles." Tracing British and American stage drama from the 1880s onward, W. B. Worthen instead sees drama as the interplay of text, stage production, and audience.

How are audiences manipulated? What makes drama meaningful? Worthen identifies three rhetorical strategies that distinguish an O'Neill play from a Yeats, or these two from a Brecht. Where realistic theater relies...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520286871
• ISBN13: 9780520286870
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"