After one of the great creative periods of western drama in the late nineteenth and the twentieth century with their experimental brashness and their intellectual reach western drama in our time has by and large folded its hands and taken up residence in the cliche marketplace, shriveling its ambition, narrowing its strategies, settling for the intellectually bland, and justifying its sluggishness by worn-out critical pieties. Cleaing Augean Stables: Examining Drama's Strategies addresses that failure in three ways: * It critiques those critical pieties, counters their irrelevance and argues their diminishing value for our time. * It reviews the dramatic strategies of great periods of western drama that expanded the reach and power of dramatic statement. * It analyses remarkably effective strategies of more recent writers in theatre and film who produced brilliantly original models for contemporary drama.
- ISBN10 1300175079
- ISBN13 9781300175070
- Publish Date 12 September 2012
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 19 June 2013
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Lulu.com
- Format eBook (OEB)
- Language English