The Development of African Drama

Michael Etherton (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

370 Seiten

2023
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-56221-6 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

1.Traditional Performance in Contemporary Society 2. Drama as Literature and Performance 3. Transpositions and Adaptations in African Drama 4. Plays About Colonialism and the Struggle for Independence 5. The Art Theatre: Three Ghanaian Plays 6. The Art Theatre: Soyinka’s Protest Plays 7. The Art Theatre: Political Plays 8. Theatre and Development.

Erscheinungsdatum	03.08.2023
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Revivals
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	843 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-032-56221-8 / 1032562218
ISBN-13	978-1-032-56221-6 / 9781032562216
Zustand	Neuware