New Playwriting Strategies: Language and Media in the 21st Century

Author:   Paul Castagno (University of North Carolina, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Edition:   2nd edition
ISBN:  

9780415491471


Pages:   272
Publication Date:   15 December 2011
Format:   Hardback
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New Playwriting Strategies: Language and Media in the 21st Century


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Author:   Paul Castagno (University of North Carolina, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   2nd edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.660kg
ISBN:  

9780415491471


ISBN 10:   0415491479
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   15 December 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Beyond the Tipping Point 1.New Playwriting Strategies: Overview and Terms Part I: Strategies of Language and Character 2. On Multivocality and Speech Genres 3. Polyvocality and the Ascendancy of the Hybrid Play 4. The Theatricality of Character 5. The Transformation of Character 6. Len Jenkin’s Dramaturgy of Character: From Stage Figures to Archetypes7. Mac Wellman: Language-Based Character8. Crossover Poetics: Sarah Ruhl and Suzan Lori-Parks Part II: Strategies of Structure and Form 9. Units and Building Blocks 10. Scenes, Acts, and Revisions 11. Foundations of Contemporary Monologue 12.Dialogic Monologue: Structure and Antistructure Works Consulted

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'The exercises Paul Castagno provides are eminently usable. They're direct, clear, and I'm gonna steal them for any playwriting classroom I'm at the front of in the future. They can be the ax Kafka talked about to break the frozen sea within us, let the writer loose, and demand that he or she let the mind hit the page in some new and yet somehow familiar ways.' -Len Jenkin, Professor of Dramatic Writing, Tisch School of the Arts at NYU


'The exercises Paul Castagno provides are eminently usable. They're direct, clear, and I'm gonna steal them for any playwriting classroom I'm at the front of in the future. They can be the ax Kafka talked about to break the frozen sea within us, let the writer loose, and demand that he or she let the mind hit the page in some new and yet somehow familiar ways.' -Len Jenkin, Professor of Dramatic Writing, Tisch School of the Arts at NYU


'The exercises Paul Castagno provides are eminently usable. They're direct, clear, and I'm gonna steal them for any playwriting classroom I'm at the front of in the future. They can be the ax Kafka talked about to break the frozen sea within us, let the writer loose, and demand that he or she let the mind hit the page in some new and yet somehow familiar ways.' -Len Jenkin, Professor of Dramatic Writing, Tisch School of the Arts at NYU


<p>'The exercises Paul Castagno provides are eminently usable. They're direct, clear, and I'm gonna steal them for any playwriting classroom I'm at the front of in the future. They can be the ax Kafka talked about to break the frozen sea within us, let the writer loose, and demand that he or she let the mind hit the page in some new and yet somehow familiar ways.'<p>-Len Jenkin, Professor of Dramatic Writing, Tisch School of the Arts at NYU


Author Information

Paul C. Castagno is Professor of Theater at UNC-Wilmington, where he served as founding chair of the Department of Theater. He formerly served as Director and Head of MA programs at the School of Theater at Ohio University, and headed the MFA Playwriting/Dramaturgy programs at the University of Alabama. He teaches playwriting and dramatic literature, directs, and has published books and articles on playwriting and commedia dell’arte.

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