Offstage Space, Narrative, and the Theatre of the Imagination

Gruber, W.

Offstage Space, Narrative, and the Theatre of the Imagination is a study of extrascenic space and how playwrights have used narrative as an alternative to conventional scenic enactment. The book covers the work of writers as diverse as Euripides, Plautus, Shakespeare, Susan Glaspell, Gertrude Stein, Bertolt Brecht, Samuel Beckett, Marguerite Duras, Brian Friel, and Thomas Bernhard. William Gruber offers a wide-ranging overview of the dramaturgical choices dramatists make when they substitute imagined events for perceptual ones.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2010-03-17

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781349384495

DOI: 10.1057/9780230105645

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 192