21%OFF
Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.
Plays of Impasse: Contemporary Drama Set in Confining Institutions
Charles Rosen
€ 55.19
€ 43.62
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for Plays of Impasse: Contemporary Drama Set in Confining Institutions
Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 356 pages. BIC Classification: DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Princeton Legacy Library
Condition
New
Weight
28 g
Number of Pages
356
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691613260
SKU
V9780691613260
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1
Reviews for Plays of Impasse: Contemporary Drama Set in Confining Institutions