Words for the Theatre: Four Essays on the Dramatic Text

ISBN-13: 9780367728052 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 68 str.

David Cole

Opis

In Words for the Theatre, playwright David Cole pursues a course of dramaturgical self-questioning on the part of a playwright, centred on the act of playwriting.

Spis treści

Preface: Words from a Playwright 

Acknowledgments 

ESSAY I: The Dramatic Text As Transcript and Prescription  

ESSAY II: The Dramatic Text As Type of the Text  

ESSAY III: The Theatre Wants to Go In  

ESSAY IV: Theatre As an Event and Another Event; or, The Sorrows of Realism (Something like a manifesto)

Words for the Theatre 

Index

O autorze

David Cole is a playwright who has written two prior books of dramatic theory: The Theatrical Event and the Nathan Award-winning Acting as Reading. His plays may be found at www.davidcoleplaysandprose.com.