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 ix
... turning from theater to theory, charged as it was to begin with by the work I had done in the theater— which, elsewhere, I have defined as “blooded thought.”1 What was also there to begin with, in the theater as in theory, are certain ...
... turning from theater to theory, charged as it was to begin with by the work I had done in the theater— which, elsewhere, I have defined as “blooded thought.”1 What was also there to begin with, in the theater as in theory, are certain ...
Pagina xvi
... turning over the questions , there was a dove in my chimney , behaving like Gertrude Stein . With a redundancy never ceasing , yet beguilingly there , that “ logorrheic bird ” took over the last page , not only with thoughts of noise ...
... turning over the questions , there was a dove in my chimney , behaving like Gertrude Stein . With a redundancy never ceasing , yet beguilingly there , that “ logorrheic bird ” took over the last page , not only with thoughts of noise ...
Pagina xviii
... turning identity inside out , queering even the queer — felt more efficacious , because they were ( as the saying went , moving into the sixties ) where the action is . And that is , truly , where it was at , even if , as in Waiting for ...
... turning identity inside out , queering even the queer — felt more efficacious , because they were ( as the saying went , moving into the sixties ) where the action is . And that is , truly , where it was at , even if , as in Waiting for ...
Pagina xxiii
... turns out to be one-stop shopping for all your tax and funeral needs. Inevi- tably, to be sure. As if the fatal drama, in ... turn that has radically widened the parameters of performance studies, from the play that was once the thing to ...
... turns out to be one-stop shopping for all your tax and funeral needs. Inevi- tably, to be sure. As if the fatal drama, in ... turn that has radically widened the parameters of performance studies, from the play that was once the thing to ...
Pagina xxiv
... turning things over and over, there are perturbations from that source and little in the disposition of the es- says, their attitudes, tone, emotional bias, that was not there when I was writing a manifesto to change things or, for that ...
... turning things over and over, there are perturbations from that source and little in the disposition of the es- says, their attitudes, tone, emotional bias, that was not there when I was writing a manifesto to change things or, for that ...
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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