Chapter 1. From Poetry to Performance
Published Online: 15 JAN 2010
DOI: 10.1002/9781444317374.ch1
Copyright © 2010 W. B. Worthen
Book Title
Drama: Between Poetry and Performance
Additional Information
How to Cite
Worthen, W. B. (2010) From Poetry to Performance, in Drama: Between Poetry and Performance, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK. doi: 10.1002/9781444317374.ch1
Publication History
- Published Online: 15 JAN 2010
- Published Print: 18 DEC 2009
ISBN Information
Print ISBN: 9781405153416
Online ISBN: 9781444317374
- Summary
- Chapter
Keywords:
- from poetry to performance;
- Shannon Jackson's “genealogy” of conception of “performance” in modern academy;
- Jackson segregating literary from cultural or performative elements of drama - as part of “a drama-to-culture genealogy”;
- dramatic performance and its discontents - the new criticism;
- teaching of drama - as part of modern literatures in English-speaking universities;
- Drama, poetry, and “interpretation”;
- New Criticism - developing “ontological account of poetry”;
- theatrical function of dramatic writing in Anglo-American tradition;
- Eliot's poetic drama - dynamic, relationship between writing and revivified social technology of theatre;
- Heresy, responsibility and performance
Summary
This chapter contains sections titled:
Dramatic Performance and its Discontents: The New Criticism
Dramatic Writing and its Discontents: Performance Studies, Drama Studies