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 xvii
... writers, directors who had created a “body of work” and a “body of knowledge” in the experimental tradition.9 Collected under the title “Ages of the Avant-Garde,” the responses were from those (you had to be fifty or older) who had made ...
... writers, directors who had created a “body of work” and a “body of knowledge” in the experimental tradition.9 Collected under the title “Ages of the Avant-Garde,” the responses were from those (you had to be fifty or older) who had made ...
Pagina xx
... writing about American drama, there are belated essays here on O'Neill and Williams (I have written about Miller elsewhere), and another recently on Maria Irene Fornes, who was also utterly unknown when in the early sixties I staged her ...
... writing about American drama, there are belated essays here on O'Neill and Williams (I have written about Miller elsewhere), and another recently on Maria Irene Fornes, who was also utterly unknown when in the early sixties I staged her ...
Pagina xxi
... writing the plays and kept me in the theater, but what I said in that essay came more from my study of literature than from anything in the theater program, which seemed to me, nearly illiterate as I was, antiintellectual—little ...
... writing the plays and kept me in the theater, but what I said in that essay came more from my study of literature than from anything in the theater program, which seemed to me, nearly illiterate as I was, antiintellectual—little ...
Pagina xxiv
... writing a manifesto to change things or, for that matter, in the best of my theater work. I still like to feel, as I suggested in Take Up the Bodies, that what I am doing in theory has something of the animus of that work be- fore ...
... writing a manifesto to change things or, for that matter, in the best of my theater work. I still like to feel, as I suggested in Take Up the Bodies, that what I am doing in theory has something of the animus of that work be- fore ...
Pagina 7
... writing into a void , we could not quite believe that the possibility of a public world was entirely lost or , if so , uncreatable . But while disaster may create a provisional sense of community , as on the banks of the Mississippi ...
... writing into a void , we could not quite believe that the possibility of a public world was entirely lost or , if so , uncreatable . But while disaster may create a provisional sense of community , as on the banks of the Mississippi ...
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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