Drama as rhetoric/rhetoric as drama
Subtitle: an exploration of dramatic and rhetorical criticism
By: editor, Stanley Vincent Longman.
Contributors: Longman, Stanley Vincent.
Publisher: Southeastern Theatre Conference; University of Alabama Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa, AL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 143
Subjects: Drama.; Rhetoric.
Other titles: Drama as rhetoric, rhetoric as drama; Theatre symposium.
Notes: Issued as: Theatre symposium, vol. 5.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Part 1. Rhetorical dimensions of drama: the classical context: The enthymeme and the invention of troping in Greek drama / August W. Staub.  Theorizing the spectacle: a rhetorical analysis of tragic recognition / Tom Heeney.  Exile and the kingdom: reason as nightmare in the Aeschylean vision / John Arthos; title: Part 2. The rhetorical in renaissance and neoclassical drama:  Epideictic pastoral: rhetorical tensions in the staging of Torquato Tasso's Aminta / Maria Galli Stampino. Shakespeare's rhetoric versus the ideology of Ian McKellen's Richard III / George L. Geckle.  And now for application: Venice preserv'd and the rhetoric of textual application / Odai Johnson; title: Part 3. War, politics, and the drama:  Federalist and republican theatre in the 1790s / Steve Wilmer.  Uncle Tom's Cabin and the rhetoric of gradualism / Charles Wilbanks.  Dario Fo's angry farce / Stanley Vincent Longman; title: Part 4. Contemporary culture:  Stain upon the silence: Samuel Beckett's deconstructive inventions / Leigh Anne Howard.  Still angry after all these years: performing the language of HIV and the marked body in The normal heart and The destiny of me / Peter Michael Pober.