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Dramatism and Musical Theater: Experiments in Rhetorical Performance

Dramatism and Musical Theater: Experiments in Rhetorical Performance

Beasley, Kimberly Eckel
Beasley, James P.

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Technical Theater

ISBN10: 1433172844
ISBN13: 9781433172847
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Published: Apr 16 2021
Pages: 226
Weight: 1.09
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Dramatism and Musical Theater: Experiments in Rhetorical Performance is an innovative workbook for both students and teachers in advanced communication performance. Meeting at the nexus of English composition, advanced rhetoric, theater, music, and drama, this book utilizes Kenneth Burke's method of dramatism to discover the motives inherent in performance practices, whether they be in the classroom or on the stage. In this book Kimberly Eckel Beasley and James P. Beasley take the five corners of the dramatistic pentad (act, scene, agent, agency, and purpose) and demonstrate their utilization in performance analysis. The authors then correlate those performance practices with the production of five contemporary musicals: Little Women, Aida, Street Scene, Into the Woods, and Children of Eden in order to emphasize the use of the dramatistic pentad in character, scene, and staging direction. By doing so, the book highlights dramatism as a performance practice necessary for effective participation in artistic communities.

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