Offstage Space, Narrative, and the Theatre of the Imagination

Offstage Space, Narrative, and the Theatre of the Imagination PDF Author: W. Gruber
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230105645
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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Book Description
Offstage Space, Narrative, and the Theatre of the Imagination is a study of extrascenic space and how playwrights have used narrative as an alternative to conventional scenic enactment. The book covers the work of writers as diverse as Euripides, Plautus, Shakespeare, Susan Glaspell, Gertrude Stein, Bertolt Brecht, Samuel Beckett, Marguerite Duras, Brian Friel, and Thomas Bernhard. William Gruber offers a wide-ranging overview of the dramaturgical choices dramatists make when they substitute imagined events for perceptual ones.