New playwriting strategies : language and media in the 21st century /
Paul C. Castagno.
- 2nd ed.
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2011.
- xiv, 258 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-245) and index.
Introduction: beyond the tipping point -- Strategies of language and character. On multivocality and speech genres -- Polyvocality and the ascendancy of the hybrid play -- The theatricality of character -- The transformation of character -- Len Jenkin's dramaturgy of character: from stage figures to archetypes -- Mac Wellman: language-based character -- Crossover poetics: Sarah Ruhl and Suzan Lori-Parks -- Strategies of structure and form. Units and building blocks -- Scenes, acts, and revisions -- Foundations of contemporary monologue -- Dialogic monologue: from structure to antistructure.