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Dramatism and Musical Theater: Experiments in Rhetorical
Performance is an innovative workbook for both students and
teachers in advanced communication performance. Meeting at the
nexus of English composition, advanced rhetoric, theater, music,
and drama, this book utilizes Kenneth Burke's method of dramatism
to discover the motives inherent in performance practices, whether
they be in the classroom or on the stage. In this book Kimberly
Eckel Beasley and James P. Beasley take the five corners of the
dramatistic pentad (act, scene, agent, agency, and purpose) and
demonstrate their utilization in performance analysis. The authors
then correlate those performance practices with the production of
five contemporary musicals: Little Women, Aida, Street Scene, Into
the Woods, and Children of Eden in order to emphasize the use of
the dramatistic pentad in character, scene, and staging direction.
By doing so, the book highlights dramatism as a performance
practice necessary for effective participation in artistic
communities. Dramatism and Musical Theater: Experiments in
Rhetorical Performance is also an indispensable guide for teachers
and directors to successfully navigate the challenges of collegiate
theatrical production.
Dramatism and Musical Theater: Experiments in Rhetorical
Performance is an innovative workbook for both students and
teachers in advanced communication performance. Meeting at the
nexus of English composition, advanced rhetoric, theater, music,
and drama, this book utilizes Kenneth Burke's method of dramatism
to discover the motives inherent in performance practices, whether
they be in the classroom or on the stage. In this book Kimberly
Eckel Beasley and James P. Beasley take the five corners of the
dramatistic pentad (act, scene, agent, agency, and purpose) and
demonstrate their utilization in performance analysis. The authors
then correlate those performance practices with the production of
five contemporary musicals: Little Women, Aida, Street Scene, Into
the Woods, and Children of Eden in order to emphasize the use of
the dramatistic pentad in character, scene, and staging direction.
By doing so, the book highlights dramatism as a performance
practice necessary for effective participation in artistic
communities. Dramatism and Musical Theater: Experiments in
Rhetorical Performance is also an indispensable guide for teachers
and directors to successfully navigate the challenges of collegiate
theatrical production.
From the early 1940s through the 1960s, some of the most important
articles in rhetoric and composition were written by University of
Chicago faculty, and it was these articles that became the
touchstones of rhetorical education in the institutional return to
rhetoric in the latter half of the twentieth century. Despite the
immense rhetorical output of these University of Chicago
professors, there has not been, to date, a book-length treatment of
why these writers focused their attention on the importance of
rhetoric in the writing class. Not only that, but there has not
been a revisionist account of how these articles were constructed
or how the teaching of rhetoric and composition has often been
misguided as a result of an uncritical acceptance of these articles
in the rhetorical tradition. By organizing these articles based on
their University of Chicago context, Rhetoric at the University of
Chicago sheds new light on the beginnings of rhetoric and
composition and demonstrates the significance of historical context
in avoiding the misuse of these articles as foundationalist
rhetorical history.
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