Título: Standpoints : the dramaturgy of Margaretta D'Arcy and John Arden
Autores: Graham, Catherine (Catherine Elizabeth)
Fecha: 1991
Publicador: McGill University - MCGILL
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Tipo: Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Tema: D'Arcy, Margaretta -- Criticism and interpretation
Arden, John -- Criticism and interpretation
Descripción: The political popular theatre which has developed in the West since the 1960s challenges the current hegemony in Western cultures by attacking its basic models of knowledge, yet little critical attention has been paid to the dramaturgies particular to this form. An application of the Possible Worlds theory, the concept of ludic framing, and feminist "standpoint" theory to the Irish stage plays written by Margaretta D'Arcy and John Arden after they left the "legitimate" stage, shows how the dramaturgy of this theater is a critical part of its strategic challenge to the status quo. This analysis shows how D'Arcy and Arden foreground the encompassing Theatre Possible World, within which the performance takes place, in order to cast doubt on the natural character of generally accepted meanings, and to induce the audience to consciously choose the frames within which it makes sense of action.
Idioma: en