Description: This edited volume applies rhetorical methodologies to dramatic literature and performative text, exploring a wide range of themes, including musical theater, revivals, children's theater, disabilities, democracy, architecture, space, theosophy, and interfaith communication.
Brief description: Jessica L. Neu is adjunct instructor in the field of Communication at Duquesne University and Carlow University.
Review Quotes:
"Spotlighting the ineluctable antistrophes between rhetoric and dramatic performance, Casting the Art of Rhetoric with Theater and Drama: Taking Center Stage showcases how the art of rhetoric and the rhetoric of art still have much to teach us. Hacker Daniels's volume features a diverse troupe of trope experts and rhetorical critics who push the boundaries of rhetoric and theatre scholarship, offering readers illuminating anagnorises of the musical, political, legal, pedagogical, spatial, and religious stages of symbolic life. Bravo!" --Christopher J. Oldenburg, Illinois College, USA
"Hacker Daniels and her colleagues pull back the curtain on the debt of contemporary theatre to 2500 years of rhetoric and dramatic debate. This edited collection is smart, funny, highly readable, thought-provoking, and bound to incite debate. It is like taking a magic carpet from Athens to Broadway, from Sophocles to The Lion King, from Cicero to Thornton Wilder, from Shakespeare to Hamilton, from page to stage, from sheet music to aria, and from oratory to sign language for the deaf." --John Soliday, University of Miami, USA