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Words for the Theatre

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Words for the Theatre

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Words for the Theatre book

Four Essays on the Dramatic Text

Words for the Theatre

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Words for the Theatre book

Four Essays on the Dramatic Text
ByDavid Cole
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2019
eBook Published 12 June 2019
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315283173
Pages 82
eBook ISBN 9781315283173
Subjects Arts
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Cole, D. (2019). Words for the Theatre: Four Essays on the Dramatic Text (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315283173

ABSTRACT

In Words for the Theatre, playwright David Cole pursues a course of dramaturgical self-questioning on the part of a playwright, centred on the act of playwriting.

The book’s four essays each offer a dramaturgical perspective on a different aspect of the playwright’s practice: How does the playwright juggle the transcriptive and prescriptive aspects of their activity? Does the ultimate performance of a playtext in fact represent something to which all writing aspires? Does the playwright’s process of withdrawing to create their text echo a similar process in the theatre more widely? Finally, how can the playwright counter theatre’s pervasive leaning towards the ‘mistake’ of realism?

Suited to playwrights, teachers, and higher-level students, this volume of essays offers reflections on the questions that confront every playwright, from an author well-versed in supplying words for the theatre.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter Eassy I|12 pages

The dramatic text as transcript and prescription

chapter Eassy II|21 pages

The dramatic text as type of the text

chapter Eassy III|18 pages

The theatre wants to go in

chapter Eassy IV|12 pages

Theatre as an event and another event; or, the sorrows of realism

(Something like a manifesto)
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