| Description |
xii, 1202 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
Criticism and theory of the modern stage. from The theatre and its double / Antonin Artaud -- "Of mimicry and man : the ambivalence of colonial discourse" / Homi Bhabha -- "Performative acts and gender constitution" / Judith Butler -- "From split subject to split britches" / Sue-Ellen Case -- "Psychopathic characters on the stage" / Sigmund Freud -- "Dynamics of the sign in the theatre" / Jindr̆ich Honzl -- "Postmodernism and consumer society" / Fredric Jameson -- from The birth of tragedy / Friedrich Nietzsche -- from Unmarked / Peggy Phelan -- "Direction and acting" / Constantin Stanislavski -- "Social dramas and stories about them" / Victor Turner -- from Drama from Ibsen to Brecht / Raymond Williams -- from Naturalism in the theatre / Émile Zola |
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Modern/Postmodern : 1975--. Cloud nine Mad forest / Caryl Churchill -- Casebook on Churchill. Introduction to Cloud nine Interview / Caryl Churchill -- "Rethinking Brecht : deconstruction, feminism and the politics of form" / Janelle Reinelt -- Uncommon women and others Interview / Wendy Wasserstein -- Hamletmachine "19 answers by Heiner Müller" / Heiner Müller -- Buried child "Language, visualization and the inner library" / Sam Shepard -- spell # 7 Interview / Ntozake Shange -- Translations / Brian Friel -- Program notes for Translations / Field Day Theatre Company -- The conduct of life Interview / Maria Irene Fornes -- Fences Interview / August Wilson -- M. Butterfly "Afterword" to M. Butterfly / David Henry Hwang -- Belle reprieve / Bette Bourne, Paul Shaw, Peggy Shaw, Lois Weaver -- Interviews / Peggy Shaw, Lois Weaver -- Angels in America part I : millenium approaches Interview / Tony Kushner -- Fires in the mirror : Crown Heights, Brooklyn and other identities "Not so special vehicles" / Anna Deavere Smith |
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Revolution and reaction : 1950-1975. Endgame Catastrophe / Samuel Beckett -- Casebook on Beckett. "Dante--Bruno. Vico--Joyce" / Samuel Beckett -- "Working with Beckett" / Alan Schneider -- from "Beckett directs Endgame and Krapp's last tape" / Ruby Cohn -- The balcony from Letters to Roger Blin / Jean Genet -- The lion and the jewel "Twice bitten : the fate of Africa's culture producers" / Wole Soyinka -- Dutchman "The revolutionary theatre" / Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones -- Funnyhouse of a Negro Interview / Adrienne Kennedy -- The homecoming "Writing for the theatre" / Harold Pinter -- Los vendidos Interview / Luis Valdez -- Offending the audience Notes to Offending the audience / Peter Handke -- India song from The vice-consul / Marguerite Duras -- The island / Athol Fugard, John Kani, Winston Ntshona -- "Introduction" to Statements / Athol Fugard -- Information for foreigners Interview / Griselda Gambaro -- Bingo Introduction to Bingo / Edward Bond |
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The emergence of modern drama : 1850-1950. The wild duck The master builder / Henrik Ibsen -- Casebook on Ibsen. Letters on The wild duck / Henrik Ibsen -- from The quintessence of Ibsenism / Bernard Shaw -- from Modern Tragedy / Raymond Williams -- The importance of being Earnest from "The critic as artist" / Oscar Wilde -- The three sisters Letters on The three sisters / Anton Chekhov -- A dream play "A dream play : a note from the author" / August Strindberg -- Votes for women! "The feministe movement in England" / Elizabeth Robins -- Trifles "A jury of her peers" / Susan Glaspell -- Rachel "Rachel--the play of the month : the reason and synopsis by the author" / Angelina Weld Grimké -- Heartbreak house from the preface to Heartbreak house / Bernard Shaw -- The emperor Jones "Memoranda on masks" / Eugene O'Neill -- Six characters in search of an author from On humor / Luigi Pirandello -- The glass menagerie Interview / Tennessee Williams -- Galileo / Bertolt Brecht -- Casebook on Brecht. "Theatre for pleasure or theatre for instruction" "The street scene" "Building up a part : Laughton's Galileo / Bertolt Brecht -- "What is epic theatre?" / Walter Benjamin |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 1192-1199) |
| Subject |
Drama -- Collections.
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Drama -- History and criticism.
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| Author |
Worthen, William B., 1955-
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| LC no. |
93080878 |
| ISBN |
015501191X |
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