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The Development of African Drama (Routledge Revivals) - Softcover

Etherton, Michael

 
9781032562292: The Development of African Drama (Routledge Revivals)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1032562293 ISBN 13: 9781032562292
Verlag: Routledge, 2025

Inhaltsangabe

Originally published in 1982, this book explores concepts such as ‘traditional performance’ and African theatre’. It analyses the links between drama and ritual, and drama and music and diagnoses the confusions in our thought. The reader is reminded that drama is never merely the printed word, but that its existence as literature and in performance is necessarily different. The analysis shows that literature tends to replace performance; and drama, removed from the popular domain, becomes elitist. The book’s richness lies in the constantly stimulating analysis of ‘art’ theatre, as exemplified in protest plays, in African adaptations and transpositions of such classical subjects as the Bacchae and Everyman, in plays on African history, on colonialism and neo-colonialism. The final chapters argue that the form of African drama needs to evolve as the content does.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Michael Etherton is a specialist in popular theatre in the developing world and in the development of Nigerian drama. He was reader in Drama at Ahmadu Bello University in Nigeria.

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Verlag
Routledge
Erscheinungsdatum
2025
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1032562293
ISBN 13 
9781032562292
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Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
370
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