Games and Play in the Theater of Spanish American Women - Hardcover

Larson, Catherine

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0838755690 ISBN 13: 9780838755693

Verlag: Bucknell University Press,U.S., 2004

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Book by Larson Catherine

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In the seventeen dramatic texts examined in this study, women writers from Spanish America have self-consciously incorporated games into their plays' structures to highlight from a woman's perspective the idea that life, as well as the theatre, is a game. Some dramas are so overtly about games that the word appears significantly in their titles. Others reflect game playing in less direct ways or connect metatheatrical examinations of role-playing to the ludic. In every drama examined, however, a game of some sort plays a key role in the construction of the playtest. By looking at the nature and number of the games played in these women-authored dramas from the past fifty years, we can see the ways in which play is used to effect social control and the connections between play and aggression, gender, history and politics. In these representative dramas, the theatre serves as a vehicle for encouraging audiences to think about (if not act upon) the issues that have shaped Spanish America. Games, rules, winners and losers join together as the playwrights explore events and times of fundamental importance in the countries' historical and political evolutions.

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• Verlag: Bucknell University Press,U.S.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0838755690
• ISBN 13: 9780838755693
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 216