Drama

An engaging book spanning the fields of drama, literary criticism, genre, and performance studies, <i>Drama: Between Poetry and Performance</i> teaches students how to read drama by exploring the threshold between text and performance. <ul type=”disc”> <li>Draws on examples from major playwrights including Shakespeare, Ibsen, Beckett, and Parks</li> <li>Explores the critical terms and controversies that animate the performance and study of drama, such as the status of language, the function of character and plot, and uses of writing</li> <li>Engages in a theoretical, disciplinary, and cultural repositioning of drama, by exploring and contesting its position at the threshold between text and performance</li> </ul>