Format:
VIII, 165 S.
ISBN:
047210537X
Series Statement:
Theater
Content:
To Act, To Do, To Perform takes a line from Hamlet's gravedigger as a basis for a philosophical inquiry into how action is constituted by language, materiality, and performance. Drawing on contemporary theory from the fields of drama, aesthetics, literature, and cultural studies, Alice Rayner uses dramatic texts by Shakespeare, Chekhov, and Beckett to examine problems of action
Content:
When an agent or subject appears to have trouble negotiating between the name of an act and the practice of that act, a range of difficult issues in drama - such as the troubled relationships between object and process, text and performance, structure and play - become apparent
Content:
Each chapter of this book takes on those issues through examination of various dimensions of the phenomenon of action, and each examines a possible position for an agent or subject in relation to acts and action, as that position is revealed by a grammatical structure
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Drama
;
Handlung
;
Drama
;
Handlung
;
Philosophie
Bookmarklink
