UID:
edocfu_9959243480202883
Format:
1 online resource (315 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-4426-6149-6
,
1-4426-6148-8
Content:
Taken together, these essays enter into an ongoing, fruitful debate about the terms 'modern' and 'drama' and build a much-needed bridge between literary studies and performance studies.
Note:
Gossip girls: Lady Teazle, Nora Helmer, and invisible-hand drama /
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"Vinlov i håret": the relationship between women, language, and power in Ibsen's Hedda Gabler /
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"Silencio, he dicho!": space, language, and characterization as agents of social protest in Lorca's rural tragedies /
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The money shot: economies of sex, guns, and language in Topdog/Underdog /
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The space stage and the circus: e.e. cummings's Him and Frederick Kiesler's Raumbühne /
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How to do nothing with words, or waiting for Godot as performativity /
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Reinventing Beckett /
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Uncloseting drama: Gertrude Stein and the Wooster Group /
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Synge's Playboy and the eugenics of language /
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The Pillowman and the ethics of allegory /
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Cognitive catharsis in The Caucasian chalk circle /
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Jane Harrison and the savage Dionysus: archaeological voyages, ritual origins, anthropology, and the modern theatre /
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Issued also in print.
,
English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4426-1281-9
Language:
English
DOI:
10.3138/9781442661486
