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 iv
... Drama - History and criticism - Theory , etc. I. Title . PN2039.B577 2002 792'.01 - dc21 2001005080 Printed in the United States of America on acid - free paper The University of Minnesota is an equal - opportunity educator and employer ...
... Drama - History and criticism - Theory , etc. I. Title . PN2039.B577 2002 792'.01 - dc21 2001005080 Printed in the United States of America on acid - free paper The University of Minnesota is an equal - opportunity educator and employer ...
Pagina x
... drama, that all the world's a stage or that life is a dream or that, seek for truth as we may—in the meta- physical ... dramatic and contingent construction of meaning”4—is in parody and remonstrance a disavowal of theater, or the sort ...
... drama, that all the world's a stage or that life is a dream or that, seek for truth as we may—in the meta- physical ... dramatic and contingent construction of meaning”4—is in parody and remonstrance a disavowal of theater, or the sort ...
Pagina xi
... dramatic form that became second nature in theory . What was at stake is tragic vision , now thought of as disempowering , but which at the perceptual limit haunts my previous books , and which for better or worse , at least in certain ...
... dramatic form that became second nature in theory . What was at stake is tragic vision , now thought of as disempowering , but which at the perceptual limit haunts my previous books , and which for better or worse , at least in certain ...
Pagina xv
... drama — the neglected plays of John Fletcher and the rehearsing of King Lear — or the sequence on American playwrights . As for the one inclu- sion that is not quite an essay , the “ analytical scenario ” of Elsinore — a text generated ...
... drama — the neglected plays of John Fletcher and the rehearsing of King Lear — or the sequence on American playwrights . As for the one inclu- sion that is not quite an essay , the “ analytical scenario ” of Elsinore — a text generated ...
Pagina xviii
... drama of Beckett and the deri- sive spectacles of Genet seemed even more germane than the plays of Brecht , no less the allegorical anti - McCarthyism of Miller's The Crucible , with its transparencies of hysteria that ( in an awful ...
... drama of Beckett and the deri- sive spectacles of Genet seemed even more germane than the plays of Brecht , no less the allegorical anti - McCarthyism of Miller's The Crucible , with its transparencies of hysteria that ( in an awful ...
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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