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 xi
... course, has its liabilities, as we could see in the mania of Artaud or, in another register of denunciation, the refusal to pay tribute to an “irresistible force,” as Brecht made clear in “A Short Organum,” in his assault on ...
... course, has its liabilities, as we could see in the mania of Artaud or, in another register of denunciation, the refusal to pay tribute to an “irresistible force,” as Brecht made clear in “A Short Organum,” in his assault on ...
Pagina xv
... course of which it also describes the various performance sites (sometimes three or more at once) in which our work occurred, as well as the cultural atmosphere of the watery twin-peaked city, lyricized by a local columnist as Baghdad ...
... course of which it also describes the various performance sites (sometimes three or more at once) in which our work occurred, as well as the cultural atmosphere of the watery twin-peaked city, lyricized by a local columnist as Baghdad ...
Pagina xvi
... course ofa year. Ifwhat it was in performance has receded into memory with the Ghost's “Remember me” (1.5.91), the analytical scenario—which follows in the collection—may somehow summon it up. Combining analysis, dialogue, scoring, and ...
... course ofa year. Ifwhat it was in performance has receded into memory with the Ghost's “Remember me” (1.5.91), the analytical scenario—which follows in the collection—may somehow summon it up. Combining analysis, dialogue, scoring, and ...
Pagina 3
... course, the fascination-effect that links fashion and theater, and both have gone through phases where they have also tried to resist it. The puzzle has been made all the more seductive through the twentieth century, as fashion became a ...
... course, the fascination-effect that links fashion and theater, and both have gone through phases where they have also tried to resist it. The puzzle has been made all the more seductive through the twentieth century, as fashion became a ...
Pagina 4
... course, been subject to change, which is its subject. I wrote of the theater long ago as a time-serving form, but with the insubstantial pageant fading, cybernetically, into the feedback systems, it is as if we are dealing now with an 4 ...
... course, been subject to change, which is its subject. I wrote of the theater long ago as a time-serving form, but with the insubstantial pageant fading, cybernetically, into the feedback systems, it is as if we are dealing now with an 4 ...
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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