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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... question : what difference does it make ? Whether or not it made a difference , those questions took on a phan- tasmaphysical aspect in the methodology of kraken , a process we called “ ghosting , " which is how Elsinore was developed ...
... question : what difference does it make ? Whether or not it made a difference , those questions took on a phan- tasmaphysical aspect in the methodology of kraken , a process we called “ ghosting , " which is how Elsinore was developed ...
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... questions , posed this time by Performing Arts Journal to per- formers , writers , directors who had created a “ body of work ” and a “ body of knowledge ” in the experimental tradition . Collected under the title “ Ages of the Avant ...
... questions , posed this time by Performing Arts Journal to per- formers , writers , directors who had created a “ body of work ” and a “ body of knowledge ” in the experimental tradition . Collected under the title “ Ages of the Avant ...
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... questions of power and authority to the vicissitudes of per- ception to the secretions of theater into the rhetoric and psychopatholo- gy of everyday life . دو part The book has nothing to do with reception theory and very little to do ...
... questions of power and authority to the vicissitudes of per- ception to the secretions of theater into the rhetoric and psychopatholo- gy of everyday life . دو part The book has nothing to do with reception theory and very little to do ...
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... questions, intersecting our politics, for which the most comprehensive paradigm remains the tragic form. It is surely to be expected that, along with theo- ry's turn back to ethics and aesthetics, tragedy itself—shameful site of Oedipus ...
... questions, intersecting our politics, for which the most comprehensive paradigm remains the tragic form. It is surely to be expected that, along with theo- ry's turn back to ethics and aesthetics, tragedy itself—shameful site of Oedipus ...
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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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