New playwriting strategies
Subtitle: language and media in the 21st century
By: Paul C. Castagno
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415491471; 9780415491488; 9780203803011
Subjects: Playwriting
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: beyond the tipping point; title: Strategies of language and character. On multivocality and speech genres; title: Polyvocality and the ascendancy of the hybrid play; title: The theatricality of character; title: The transformation of character; title: Len Jenkin's dramaturgy of character: from stage figures to archetypes; title: Mac Wellman: language-based character; title: Crossover poetics: Sarah Ruhl and Suzan Lori-Parks; title: Strategies of structure and form. Units and building blocks; title: Scenes, acts, and revisions; title: Foundations of contemporary monologue; title: Dialogic monologue: from structure to antistructure.