Plays of Impasse
ROSEN, Charles
Plays of Impasse Contemporary Drama Set in Confining Institutions / [online] : Charles Rosen - Princeton University Press, 2017 - 1 online resource (356 p.) - Princeton Legacy Library 4908 . - Princeton Legacy Library .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Photographs -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Killing Pain in the End Beds -- 3. Imagining Freedom at the Asylum -- 4. Passing Time Behind Bars -- 5. Acting Tough in the Barracks -- 6. A Dream of Order -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
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This work probes the structure and significance of the increasingly numerous and highly visible plays set in contemporary society's dead ends the hospitals, insane asylums, prisons, and military training camps so aptly described by Erving Goffman as total institutions." Carol Rosen shows how the setting in these plays tends to engulf and then to exclude the audience, turning an encompassing stage structure a closed, controlling, absolute system into a protagonist that overwhelms the characters.Originally published in 1983.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781400886500
10.1515/9781400886500 doi
DE-Limba și literatura engleză
resursă online
PN1861 / .R65 1983eb
809.2/04
Plays of Impasse Contemporary Drama Set in Confining Institutions / [online] : Charles Rosen - Princeton University Press, 2017 - 1 online resource (356 p.) - Princeton Legacy Library 4908 . - Princeton Legacy Library .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Photographs -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Killing Pain in the End Beds -- 3. Imagining Freedom at the Asylum -- 4. Passing Time Behind Bars -- 5. Acting Tough in the Barracks -- 6. A Dream of Order -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
This work probes the structure and significance of the increasingly numerous and highly visible plays set in contemporary society's dead ends the hospitals, insane asylums, prisons, and military training camps so aptly described by Erving Goffman as total institutions." Carol Rosen shows how the setting in these plays tends to engulf and then to exclude the audience, turning an encompassing stage structure a closed, controlling, absolute system into a protagonist that overwhelms the characters.Originally published in 1983.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781400886500
10.1515/9781400886500 doi
DE-Limba și literatura engleză
resursă online
PN1861 / .R65 1983eb
809.2/04