Offstage space, narrative, and the theatre of the imagination

William Gruber

Palgrave Macmillan

2010

Abstract

Offstage Space, Narrative, and the Theatre of the Imagination is a study of extrascenic space and how playwrights have used narrative as an alternative to conventional scenic enactment. The book covers the work of writers as diverse as Euripides, Plautus, Shakespeare, Susan Glaspell, Gertrude Stein, Bertolt Brecht, Samuel Beckett, Marguerite Duras, Brian Friel, and Thomas Bernhard. William Gruber offers a wide-ranging overview of the dramaturgical choices dramatists make when they substitute imagined events for perceptual ones.

Cited authors

Beckett Samuel

Shakespeare William

Brecht Bertolt

Duras Marguerite

Bernhard Thomas

Stein Gertrude

Gruber William