The Dubious Spectacle: Extremities of Theater, 1976-2000U of Minnesota Press, 1 jan 2002 - 347 pagina's Spanning a quarter of a century, the essays in this book rehearse, in the movement of memory and cross-reflection, an extensive career in theater. The work of Herbert Blau--his directing, writing, and criticism--has been a determining force during this period as theater encounters theory. |
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Pagina x
... Brecht, then deconstruction, but was in a state of vir- tual collapse. One has only to look, however, at the plaintive end of Derrida's essay on Artaud, “The Theater of Cruelty and the Closure of Representation,” to realize that even ...
... Brecht, then deconstruction, but was in a state of vir- tual collapse. One has only to look, however, at the plaintive end of Derrida's essay on Artaud, “The Theater of Cruelty and the Closure of Representation,” to realize that even ...
Pagina xi
... Brecht made clear in “ A Short Organum , ” in his assault on “ Shakespeare's great solitary figures , bearing on their breast the star of their fate . . . . ” What Brecht disdained in those star - crossed , mesmerizing , vainglorious ...
... Brecht made clear in “ A Short Organum , ” in his assault on “ Shakespeare's great solitary figures , bearing on their breast the star of their fate . . . . ” What Brecht disdained in those star - crossed , mesmerizing , vainglorious ...
Pagina xviii
... Brecht , Sean O'Casey , and Arthur Miller , all of them on the left , sufficiently so that we developed a considerable follow- ing among the labor unions and with its newspaper , The People's World , giving us rave reviews — the ...
... Brecht , Sean O'Casey , and Arthur Miller , all of them on the left , sufficiently so that we developed a considerable follow- ing among the labor unions and with its newspaper , The People's World , giving us rave reviews — the ...
Pagina xix
... Brecht accepted as an irreversible datum in the formulation of a method and which — in the desire to overcome the separation on behalf of “ essential theater ” — drove Artaud mad . One might have more mixed feelings about it all , but ...
... Brecht accepted as an irreversible datum in the formulation of a method and which — in the desire to overcome the separation on behalf of “ essential theater ” — drove Artaud mad . One might have more mixed feelings about it all , but ...
Pagina 10
... Brecht and Artaud , and by social and critical theorists , like Gramsci , whose dramatic criticism was even more caustic than Brecht's about the culinary audi- ence . The harshness of their judgments may be attributed to the urgen- cies ...
... Brecht and Artaud , and by social and critical theorists , like Gramsci , whose dramatic criticism was even more caustic than Brecht's about the culinary audi- ence . The harshness of their judgments may be attributed to the urgen- cies ...
Inhoudsopgave
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2 The Impossible Takes a Little Time | 18 |
3 Spacing Out in the American Theater | 37 |
Rehearsing the Resistance | 53 |
5 A Dove in My Chimney | 62 |
An Analytic Scenario | 70 |
The Grail of the Voice | 118 |
Chills and Fever Mourning and the Vanities of the Sublime | 132 |
13 Readymade Desire | 199 |
From Tango Palace to Mud | 206 |
The Group Idea and Its Legacy | 215 |
New Music and Theater | 230 |
17 FlatOut Vision | 246 |
Sovereign Pleasure and the Baroque Subject in the Tragicomedies of John Fletcher | 265 |
Revising the Abyss | 281 |
The Insane Root | 307 |
9 The Dubious Spectacle of Collective Identity | 137 |
Subtext of a Syllabus for the Arts in America | 157 |
Educating the American Theater | 181 |
12 The Pipe Dreams of ONeill in the Age of Deconstruction | 189 |
Notes | 321 |
Previous Publications | 335 |
Index | 337 |
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