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Toward a Dramaturgical Sensibility
Geoffrey S. Proehl
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Hardcover. Toward a Dramaturgical Sensibility explores the interplay between the known and the unknown from two perspectives-landscape and journey-in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: DSGS; JMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 149 x 22. Weight in Grams: 534.
Toward a Dramaturgical Sensibility begins with a moment in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra in which Cleopatra says to Antony, "Not know me yet?" With these four words Cleopatra poses a simple but fundamental human problem: What can we know? She and Antony have known each other for years, at times gloriously—emotionally, mentally, and in the archaic sense of the word, physically—but still the challenge of knowing hangs in the air. Cleopatra's question reminds us that knowledge is not simple: that it is as likely to create yearning as satisfaction; that it is not confined to any one part of the ... Read more
Toward a Dramaturgical Sensibility begins with a moment in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra in which Cleopatra says to Antony, "Not know me yet?" With these four words Cleopatra poses a simple but fundamental human problem: What can we know? She and Antony have known each other for years, at times gloriously—emotionally, mentally, and in the archaic sense of the word, physically—but still the challenge of knowing hangs in the air. Cleopatra's question reminds us that knowledge is not simple: that it is as likely to create yearning as satisfaction; that it is not confined to any one part of the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
Number of Pages
250
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9781611475234
SKU
V9781611475234
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About Geoffrey S. Proehl
Geoffrey S. Proehl teaches, dramaturgs, and directs at the University of Puget Sound. He contributed to and co-edited, with Susan Jonas and Michael Lupu, Dramaturgy in American Theater: A Source Book (1997). He has worked with the Guthrie Theater, Arena Stage, The People's Light and Theatre Company, and the New Harmony Project.
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