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Title:

DRAMATURGY
A REVOLUTION IN THEATRE

By:

Mary Luckhurst

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Paperback

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0521081882

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9780521081887

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Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

30 June, 2008

Series:

Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre

Pages:

316

Description:

A study of the origins of dramaturgs and literary managers.

Synopsis:

Dramaturgy: A Revolution in Theatre is a substantial history of the origins of dramaturgs and literary managers. It frames the explosion of professional appointments in England within a wider continental map reaching back to the Enlightenment and eighteenth-century Germany, examining the work of the major theorists and practitioners of dramaturgy, from Granville Barker and Gotthold Lessing to Brecht and Tynan. This study positions Brecht's model of dramaturgy as central to the worldwide revolution in theatre-making practices, and it also makes a substantial argument for Granville Barker's and Tynan's contributions to the development of literary management. With the territories of play and performance-making being increasingly hotly contested, and the public's appetite for new plays showing no sign of diminishing, Mary Luckhurst investigates the dramaturg as a cultural and political phenomenon.

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Cambridge University Press

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