Dramaturgy : a revolution in theatre

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Author:

Luckhurst, Mary.

ISBN:

9780521849630

Personal Author:

Luckhurst, Mary.

Publication Information:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Physical Description:

xiii, 297 p. ; 24 cm.

Series:

Cambridge studies in modern theatre

Series Title:

Cambridge studies in modern theatre

General Note:

Includes index.

Contents:

Gotthold Lessing and the Hamburg Dramaturgy -- Dramaturgy in nineteenth-century England -- William Archer and Harley Granville Barker: constructions of the literary manager -- Bertolt Brecht: the theory and practice of the dramaturg -- Kenneth Tynan and the National Theatre -- Dramaturgy and literary management in England today.

Abstract:

"Dramaturgy: A Revolution in Theatre is the first substantial history of the origins of dramaturgs and literary managers. It frames the recent 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 is the first to position Brecht's model of dramaturgy as central to the world-wide revolution in theatre-making practices, and is also the first work to make a substantial argument for Granville Barker's and Tynan's contributions to the development of literary management today."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject Term:

Dramaturges -- History.

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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.