TY - BOOK AU - Castagno,Paul C. TI - New playwriting strategies: language and media in the 21st century SN - 9780415491471 (hardback : alk. paper) AV - PN1661 .C364 2011 U1 - 808.2 22 PY - 2011/// CY - London, New York PB - Routledge KW - Playwriting N1 - 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 ER -