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What does it matter what we read? The question of the materiality of the book has surprising consequences when applied to dramatic writing, where the bookish qualities of dramatic literature, qualities emphasised by the dominion of print culture, have always seemed antagonistic to plays' other life on the stage. In Print and the Poetics of Modern Drama, W. B. Worthen asks how the print form of drama bears on how we understand its dual identity - as play texts and in performance. Beginning with the most salient modern critique of printed drama - arising in the field of Shakespeare editing - Worthen then looks at the ways playwrights and performance artists from George Bernard Shaw and Gertrude Stein to Harold Pinter, Samuel Beckett, Anna Deavere Smith and Sarah Kane stage the poetics of modern drama in the poetics of the page.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Print and the Poetics of Modern Drama
• Author: W. B. Worthen
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• EAN: 9780521602693
• ISBN: 0521602696
• ID: 04093129
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 340 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 13 mm
• Date of publishing: 19. March 2009

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