The Dubious Spectacle: Extremities of Theater, 1976-2000U of Minnesota Press, 01.01.2002 - 347 Seiten Spanning 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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... production? or, in the ether of ideology, 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 ...
... production? or, in the ether of ideology, 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 ...
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... production . By the time , a few years later , I did a somewhat revisionist staging of Galileo , I had already , drawn to Beckett astride of a grave , been equivocating about Brecht and his cri- tique of dramatic form that became second ...
... production . By the time , a few years later , I did a somewhat revisionist staging of Galileo , I had already , drawn to Beckett astride of a grave , been equivocating about Brecht and his cri- tique of dramatic form that became second ...
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... production that was a great success ) edified the incapacities of our liberal audience . “ If the audience is not altogether an absence , it is by no means a reliable presence , ” I wrote in the opening paragraph of xviii Introduction.
... production that was a great success ) edified the incapacities of our liberal audience . “ If the audience is not altogether an absence , it is by no means a reliable presence , ” I wrote in the opening paragraph of xviii Introduction.
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... productions of utterly unknown or relatively unknown , now canonical European dramatists , survival was next to impossible without the production of Broadway plays . It was these that paid the bills for our more controversial repertoire ...
... productions of utterly unknown or relatively unknown , now canonical European dramatists , survival was next to impossible without the production of Broadway plays . It was these that paid the bills for our more controversial repertoire ...
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... production, Danton's Death. After an early dinner, in which he was tactful with advice about some of the actors we had inherited and the hazards of New York, Harold walked me back to the theater, the stage door closing him out as I went ...
... production, Danton's Death. After an early dinner, in which he was tactful with advice about some of the actors we had inherited and the hazards of New York, Harold walked me back to the theater, the stage door closing him out as I went ...
Inhalt
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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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