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Fields of Play in Modern Drama

Fields of Play in Modern Drama

Whitaker, Thomas R.

Hardcover

Series: Princeton Legacy Library, Book 1672

Theater History

ISBN10: 0691636257
ISBN13: 9780691636252
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Published: Apr 19 2016
Pages: 202
Weight: 1.02
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Starting from the assumption that all theater is at least implicitly participatory, Professor Whitaker approaches thirteen plays, from Ibsen's Rosmersholm to Beckett's Endgame and Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. He asks the reader to commit himself to a variety of points of view--those of witnesses, actors, directors, and characters--as a series of critical fictions lead him toward the experience of each play in performance.

The author supplies detailed readings of the plays in various modes. The styles of the chapters vary according to the issues dominant in the plays discussed, and the reader experiences simultaneously a sense of approaching the meaning of performance and of gaining a deeper understanding of the play through a subtle and allusive commentary.

Originally published in 1977.

The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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