{"product_id":"missing-persons-william-e-gruber-9780820338521","title":"Missing Persons: Essays on Character and Characterization in Modern Drama","description":"In the hands of the twentieth century's most innovative dramatists, characters have revealed their identities on stage in a variety of unconventional ways: they speak with electronic voices or engage in solipsistic monologues; they are lost in self-conscious third-person forms of communicating; or they are expressed simply as movement, sound, and decor. \u003ci\u003eMissing Persons \u003c\/i\u003eis a study of character and its representations on the modern stage. Within broad literary contexts, William E. Gruber addresses specific questions about the dramatis personae of the playwrights Gordon Craig, Bertolt Brecht, Samuel Beckett, Thomas Berhard, and Maria Fornes. Gruber attempts to restore \"character\" to the current discourse by developing a vocabulary for discussing it in plays in which conventional terms seem insufficient or irrelevant.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e William E. Gruber\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0820338524\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820338521\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Georgia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.78lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.54d","brand":"William E. Gruber","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48435704725759,"sku":"9780820338521","price":28.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8cd4629c-0e89-4274-9295-51c07ed30175.jpg?v=1777152150","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/missing-persons-william-e-gruber-9780820338521","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}