Offstage space, narrative, and the theatre of the imagination

Gruber William

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Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke

2010

192 Pages

ISBN 978-1-349-38449-5

Offstage space, narrative, and the theatre of the imagination

William Gruber

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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DOI: 10.1057/9780230105645

Full citation:

Gruber, W. (2010). Offstage space, narrative, and the theatre of the imagination, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke.

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Introduction

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