The Dubious Spectacle: Extremities of Theater, 1976-2000Spanning 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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Page xi
... figures , bearing on their breast the star of their fate . . . . ” What Brecht disdained in those star - crossed , mesmerizing , vainglorious fig- ures was not the mere subjective burden of this too , too solid ( or squalid ? ) flesh ...
... figures , bearing on their breast the star of their fate . . . . ” What Brecht disdained in those star - crossed , mesmerizing , vainglorious fig- ures was not the mere subjective burden of this too , too solid ( or squalid ? ) flesh ...
Page xx
... figures much or at all in the essay here, which focuses instead on The Hairy Ape. The essay was originally given as a talk at an international symposium on O'Neill in 1988, the centennial year of his birth, at Hosei University, Tokyo ...
... figures much or at all in the essay here, which focuses instead on The Hairy Ape. The essay was originally given as a talk at an international symposium on O'Neill in 1988, the centennial year of his birth, at Hosei University, Tokyo ...
Page xxi
... figure of Walt , cryogenically preserved — informs “ Fantasia and Simulacra : Subtext of a Syllabus for the Arts in America . ” If there is anything like a peda- gogy that goes along with the syllabus , it is derived most specifically ...
... figure of Walt , cryogenically preserved — informs “ Fantasia and Simulacra : Subtext of a Syllabus for the Arts in America . ” If there is anything like a peda- gogy that goes along with the syllabus , it is derived most specifically ...
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... figures , Raymond Williams , who foresaw against his disposition ( and before Baudrillard ) the dissolution of the social , in an unguardedly elegiac moment of an essay on the drama of a dramatized society : “ Priva- cy , deprivation ...
... figures , Raymond Williams , who foresaw against his disposition ( and before Baudrillard ) the dissolution of the social , in an unguardedly elegiac moment of an essay on the drama of a dramatized society : “ Priva- cy , deprivation ...
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... figure of authority as an armature for possi- bility? As for socialism's die-hard prospect, the chiliastic notion of ... figures of a national theater, but if the Comédie Française is, when not merely regressive, a mecca for tourists ...
... figure of authority as an armature for possi- bility? As for socialism's die-hard prospect, the chiliastic notion of ... figures of a national theater, but if the Comédie Française is, when not merely regressive, a mecca for tourists ...
Contents
1 | |
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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