New playwriting strategies : language and media in the 21st century /

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Author / Creator:Castagno, Paul C., 1950-
Edition:2nd ed.
Imprint:London ; New York : Routledge, 2012.
Description:xiv, 258 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8532364
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ISBN:9780415491471 (hardback : alk. paper)
0415491479 (hardback : alk. paper)
9780415491488 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0415491487 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: beyond the tipping point
  • Strategies of language and character. On multivocality and speech genres
  • Polyvocality and the ascendancy of the hybrid play
  • The theatricality of character
  • The transformation of character
  • Len Jenkin's dramaturgy of character: from stage figures to archetypes
  • Mac Wellman: language-based character
  • Crossover poetics: Sarah Ruhl and Suzan Lori-Parks
  • Strategies of structure and form. Units and building blocks
  • Scenes, acts, and revisions
  • Foundations of contemporary monologue
  • Dialogic monologue: from structure to antistructure.