Title: A Laboratory of Impure Forms: The Plays of Tadeusz Rozewicz (Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies)
Publisher: Praeger
Publication Date: 1991
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0313268053
ISBN 13: 9780313268052
Binding: hardcover
Condition: As New
Weight: 16 ounces

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This is the first comprehensive examination of the works of contemporary Polish playwright Tadeusz Rozewicz. Halina Filipowicz applies a theoretical perspective to more than a dozen plays and situates the important postwar dramatist on the borders of modernism and postmodernism, arguing that in his laboratory of impure forms he reworks the conventions and dramatic ideas of the past into a theatrical language responsive to our times. Filipowicz makes use of biographical and historical information, comparative frameworks, the lessons of deconstruction, and feminist inquiry to assess the writer's passionate and complex reactions to modern civilization. Written over a thirty-year period, Rozewicz's oeuvre includes thirteen plays, nine minidramas, and four works that transgress established categories of drama. Rozewicz's plays, such as The Card Index and White Marriage, have been staged in the United States and many are available in English. This six-chapter volume, which also contains a chronology of the writer's life and work and a calendar of premieres, draws on personal interviews with Rozewicz as well as on unpublished or forgotten plays.

The first chapter presents an overview of Rozewicz's innovative dramaturgy in terms of both context and method and discovers a dramatist whose only consistency is his refusal to be faithful to any one of the temporary formulae of a playwright's craft. The following five chapters group the plays thematically and offer critical approaches to interpreting and understanding them. This groundbreaking study will be relevant to students and scholars in Slavic literatures, theatre and drama, comparative drama, comparative literature, and dramatic theory and criticism.

About the Author

HALINA FILIPOWICZ is Associate Professor in the Department of Slavic Literatures at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. In 1975 she published the first monograph in Polish about the plays of Eugene O'Neill and her articles appear regularly in the The Drama Review, Modern Drama, Slavic and East European Journal, and others. She is presently writing a book entitled A Poetics of Insurrection: The Uprisings of 1794, 1830, and 1863 in Polish Drama.

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