New playwriting strategies [electronic resource] : language and media in the 21st century / Paul C. Castagno.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: beyond the tipping point -- Strategies of language and character. On multivocality and speech genres -- Polyvocality and the ascendancy of the hybrid play -- The theatricality of character -- The transformation of character -- Len Jenkin's dramaturgy of character: from stage figures to archetypes -- Mac Wellman: language-based character -- Crossover poetics: Sarah Ruhl and Suzan Lori-Parks -- Strategies of structure and form. Units and building blocks -- Scenes, acts, and revisions -- Foundations of contemporary monologue -- Dialogic monologue: from structure to antistructure.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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