| Description |
xv, 223 pages ; 25 cm |
| Summary |
This is a book in which ideology and performance shadow each other, in a theoretical inquiry which ranges widely across historical periods and cultures. The author's concerns--which include the social meaning of illusion and the cultural manifestation of power--take the reader from Jacobean drama to the pageantry of Robert Wilson; from Eleanora Duse to Laurie Anderson; from the puppet theater of Kleist to Kantor's theater of the dead; and from the Kutiyattam temple dancers in Kerala to Womanhouse in Los Angeles. A brilliant, uncontainable, and chastening look at the rhetoric of critical theory in relation to performance and ideological practice, this is undoubtedly a book for the twenty-first century. It returns us, through all appearances, to the unavoidable question in art, in politics, in the society of the spectacle: what, after all, is the future of illusion? |
| Analysis |
Theatre |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-213) and index |
| Subject |
Drama -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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Drama -- History and criticism.
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Drama -- History and literature -- Theory, etc
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Theater.
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| Genre/Form |
Theater reviews.
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| LC no. |
91046688 |
| ISBN |
041501364X |
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0415013658 |
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