Plays of Impasse
：Contemporary Drama Set in Confining Institutions
( Princeton Legacy Library )
Publication subTitle ：Contemporary Drama Set in Confining Institutions
Publication series ：Princeton Legacy Library
Author： Rosen Charles
Publisher： Princeton University Press
Publication year： 2017
E-ISBN: 9781400886500
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780691065656
Subject： I106.3 dramatic literature
Keyword： 戏剧艺术
Language： ENG
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Description
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.
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