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Comic Theaters: Studies in Performance and Audience Response

Comic Theaters: Studies in Performance and Audience Response

Gruber, William E.

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Literary CriticismTheater History

ISBN10: 0820338516
ISBN13: 9780820338514
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: May 1 2011
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.53 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

In Comic Theaters, William E. Gruber draws dramatic criticism beyond its traditional emphasis on the play's text toward a theory of theater that more fully incorporates performance. The bare text is clothed in the cultural norms and conceptions of both actor and audience in performance; in the conversion of words into action; in the actor's creation of his role; and in the audience's involvement with the scenes on stage.

Reinterpreting six comedies taken from classical Greek, Renaissance, and modern repertories, Gruber shows how dramatic meaning is derived not from traditional criteria, archetypal motifs, or unchanging affective responses, but from changing concepts of theater and changing configurations of actor and role.

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