What Is Dramaturgy? Third Printing

Name: What Is Dramaturgy? Third Printing
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ISBN: 9780820421773

ISBN-10: 0820421774

ISBN-13: 9780820421773

Edition: 3rd 2005 (Revised)

Authors: Bert Cardullo

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What Is Dramaturgy? attempts to document, by way of articles, statements, and bibliographies, the dramaturg's profession, which began with Lessing in Germany in the second half of the eighteenth century and was instituted in the United States two hundred years later during the rise of the regional theatre movement. As critics-in-residence (also known as literary managers), dramaturgs perform a variety of tasks: broadly speaking, they select and prepare playtexts for performance, advise directors, and educate the audience; they are translators, theatre historians, public lecturers, even artistic consciences. Dramaturgy literally means the craft or the techniques of dramatic composition…

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List price: $42.95
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Peter Lang AG International Academic Publishers
Publication date: 12/23/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 260
Size: 9.00" wide x 6.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Introduction


Acknowledgements



Enter Dramaturgs




The Compleat Dramaturg




Ten Dramaturgical Myths




Lessing, Jugglers, and Dramaturgs




The Role of the Dramaturg in European Theater




Dramaturgy In Stuttgart: An Interview with Hermann Beil




Bertolt Brecht as Dramaturg




American Dramaturgy: A Critical Re-Appraisal




The American View: The Future for Dramaturgs on U.S. Campuses




Dramaturgs in America: Two Interviews and Six Statements


Dramaturgy at The Guthrie: An Interview with Mark Bly



The Literary Manager As "Resident Highbrow": An Interview with Russell Vandenbroucke at the Mark Taper Forum




Dramaturgy in Two Senses: Towards a Theory and Some Working Principles of New-Play Dramaturgy




The Ghost Lights of Our Theaters: The Fate of Contemporary American Dramaturgs




The Critic Comes Full Circle: An Interview with Kenneth Tynan



Literary Management at the National Theatre, London: An Interview with John Russell Brown




Directors, Dramaturgs, and War in Poland: An Interview with Jan Kott




The Dramaturg in Yugoslavia




The Program as Performance Text



A Dramaturgy Bibliography