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Modern Drama in Theory and Practice: Volume 1, Realism and Naturalism
This 1981 volume begins with the French revolt against naturalism in theatre and then covers the European realist movement.
English Ethnicity and Race in Early Modern Drama
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Staging Place
The first book-length study of the notion of place and its implications in modern drama
Modern Drama by Women, 1880s-1930s
This anthology shakes up the traditional canon and recovers a neglected treasure trove of plays by the women of the modernist era. Unprecedented in diversity and scope, it is a collection for scholars, students or lovers of modern drama.
Modern Drama
The contributors examine varied topics such as the analysis of periodicity; the articulation of social, political, and cultural production in theatre; the re-evaluation of texts, performances, and canons; and demonstrations of how interdisciplinarity inflects theatre and its practice.
Modern Drama and the Rhetoric of Theater
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 on the "natural" qualities of the stage scene, poetic theater uses the poet's word, the text, to control performance. Modern political theater, by contrast, openly places the audience at the center of its rhetorical designs, and the drama of the postwar period is shown to develop a range of post-Brechtian practices that make the audience the subject of the play. Worthen's book deserves the attention of any literary critic or serious theatergoer interested in the relationship between modern drama and the spectator.
Home on the Stage
Nicholas Grene explores the subject of domestic spaces in modern drama through close readings of nine major plays.
