THEA 491: Dramaturgy Spring 2020

American social history: people, events and ideas.
11 volumes, 1900-2009

Concise look at European culture between the Great Revolution in France and the First World War.

A systematic overview on major aspects of social life, including population, family and households, social inequalities and mobility, the welfare state, work, consumption and leisure, social cleavages in politics, urbanization as well as education, religion and culture.

A Series of books about the experiences of everyday people through history in Food, Shelter, Families, Neighbors, Work, and Play.

Chronologies of the most important people and events in history:. Books in the series focus on America, Women, African-Americans, Jews, and Technology.

Surveys the field through eight main lenses: world dramaturgy and global perspective dramaturgy as function, verb and skill dramaturgical leadership and season planning production dramaturgy in translation adaptation and new play development interdisciplinary dramaturgy play analysis in postdramatic and new media dramaturgy social media and audience outreach.

Part 1, "Philosophy," describes what dramturgs do, presents a history of dramaturgy, and summarizes critical theories. Part 2, "Analysis" teaches the two essential skills of a dramaturg: reading and writing. Part 3, "Practice," offers advice about collaborating with other artists.
Also in print: PN2053 .C428 2010

Each chapter includes ways to approach so-called old plays or set texts (think Shakespeare or Pinter or Parks) and then takes it up a notch to show how to use those skills when working on new plays.