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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... merely another ap- pearance? As I have asked in other books, how seriously are we to take the persistent themes of the canonical 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 ...
... merely another ap- pearance? As I have asked in other books, how seriously are we to take the persistent themes of the canonical 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 ...
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... mere subjective burden of this too , too solid ( or squalid ? ) flesh but fatality as pandemic , the catastrophe beyond criti- cism : “ Human sacrifices all round ! Barbaric delights ! ” — while we “ under cover of darkness . . . take ...
... mere subjective burden of this too , too solid ( or squalid ? ) flesh but fatality as pandemic , the catastrophe beyond criti- cism : “ Human sacrifices all round ! Barbaric delights ! ” — while we “ under cover of darkness . . . take ...
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... merely ideological. What can one say? Here the imprinted residue may be that of high modernism, where imagination goes with conceptual rigor too, as in the photographic Equivalents of Alfred Stieglitz, which appear to bring the senses ...
... merely ideological. What can one say? Here the imprinted residue may be that of high modernism, where imagination goes with conceptual rigor too, as in the photographic Equivalents of Alfred Stieglitz, which appear to bring the senses ...
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... merely the IQ of characters I had in mind , nor is the new drama of ideas quite what we found so chal- lenging in those first encounters back in the fifties and sixties with Brecht , Beckett , and Genet . To be sure , whatever their ...
... merely the IQ of characters I had in mind , nor is the new drama of ideas quite what we found so chal- lenging in those first encounters back in the fifties and sixties with Brecht , Beckett , and Genet . To be sure , whatever their ...
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... mere appearance. That there is an artifice to this dubious look does not necessarily diminish the thought, nor does the theoretical animus against anything like the authentic, with its suggestions of an irreducible core or the truth ...
... mere appearance. That there is an artifice to this dubious look does not necessarily diminish the thought, nor does the theoretical animus against anything like the authentic, with its suggestions of an irreducible core or the truth ...
Contents
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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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