What Is Dramaturgy?; Third Printing

by Bert Cardullo

What Is Dramaturgy? attempts to document, by way of articles, statements, and bibliographies, the dramaturg's profession, which began with Lessing in Germany in the second half of the eighteenth century and was instituted in the United States two hundred years later during the rise of the regional theatre movement. As critics-in-residence (also known as literary managers), dramaturgs perform a variety of tasks: broadly speaking, they select...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820421774
• ISBN13: 9780820421773
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Peter Lang Us
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 8.9"