Can I read Reading Theatre (Toronto Studies in Semiotics and Communication) on EtoBox?

Reading Theatre (Toronto Studies in Semiotics and Communication) by Anne Ubersfeld, Jean-Patrick Debbeche, Paul J. Perron, Frank Collins is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Reading Theatre (Toronto Studies in Semiotics and Communication) about?

First published in France in 1976, Anne Ubersfeld's three-volume work, Lire le theatre, has made a resounding impact on the semiological study of drama. Reading Theatre is a long-awaited translation of the first volume. Clear and systematic in its approach, the book covers all the basic elements of theatrical text and performance. Ubersfeld begins by refuting the view of performance as the simple 'translation' of a dramatic text, and outlines a much more complex dynamic. In subsequent chapters she similarly begins with a brief critique of simplistic models and then teases out the complexities of action, character, space, time, and dialogue. A range of specific examples brings substance and clarity to her points. Ubersfeld shows how such formal analysis can enrich the work of theatre practitioners, offering a fruitful reading of the symbolic structures of stage space and time, and opening up multiple possibilities for interpreting a play's lines of action. Though firmly grounded in formalist and semiotic studies, the book exhibits a refreshing scepticism about scientific positivism, stressing the fundamental ambiguity of any dramatic text as well as the sociohistorical grounding of

Who reads Reading Theatre (Toronto Studies in Semiotics and Communication)?

Author

Anne Ubersfeld, Jean-Patrick Debbeche, Paul J. Perron, Frank Collins

Publisher

University of Toronto Press; University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9780802044556

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Performing Arts, Literary Criticism, Philosophy