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Narrating the Past through Theatre: Four Crucial Texts
Michael Y. Bennett
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Description for Narrating the Past through Theatre: Four Crucial Texts
Hardcover. This cutting-edge title explores how narrating the past both conflicts and creates an interesting relationship with drama's 'continuing present' that arcs towards an unpredictable future. Theatre both brings the past alive and also fixes it, but through the performance process, allowing the past to be molded for future (not-yet-existent) audiences. Num Pages: 97 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3J; AN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 147 x 13. Weight in Grams: 270.
This cutting-edge title explores how narrating the past both conflicts and creates an interesting relationship with drama's 'continuing present' that arcs towards an unpredictable future. Theatre both brings the past alive and also fixes it, but through the performance process, allowing the past to be molded for future (not-yet-existent) audiences.
This cutting-edge title explores how narrating the past both conflicts and creates an interesting relationship with drama's 'continuing present' that arcs towards an unpredictable future. Theatre both brings the past alive and also fixes it, but through the performance process, allowing the past to be molded for future (not-yet-existent) audiences.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Pivot
Number of pages
98
Condition
New
Number of Pages
89
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137275417
SKU
V9781137275417
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About Michael Y. Bennett
Michael Y. Bennett is Associate Professor of English and affiliated faculty in Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, USA, where he teaches courses on modern drama. He is the author of: Reassessing the Theatre of the Absurd (2011/2013); Words, Space, and the Audience (2012); Narrating the Past through Theatre (2012). He is the editor of Refiguring Oscar Wilde s Salome ... Read more
Reviews for Narrating the Past through Theatre: Four Crucial Texts
'Narrating the Past through Theatre is a philosophical/literary discussion of how works of literature translate the past for the present and the future. It is a worthwhile discussion since the past as we know it at the beginning of the twenty-first century is unbearably burdensome unless we can somehow own it intellectually. Michael Y. Bennett's discussion of these texts is ... Read more