The dubious spectacle : extremities of theater, 1976-2000 / Herbert Blau.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blau, Herbert.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theater--Philosophy.

Theater.

Drama--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Drama.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (374 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; 1. Afterthought from the Vanishing Point: Theater at the End of the Real; 2. The Impossible Takes a Little Time; 3. Spacing Out in the American Theater; 4. From Red Hill to the Renaissance: Rehearsing the Resistance; 5. A Dove in My Chimney; 6. Elsinore: An Analytic Scenario; 7. Deep Throat: The Grail of the Voice; 8. A Valediction: Chills and Fever, Mourning, and the Vanities of the Sublime; 9. The Dubious Spectacle of Collective Identity; 10. Fantasia and Simulacra: Subtext of a Syllabus for the Arts in America

11. With Your Permission: Educating the American Theater12. The Pipe Dreams of O'Neill in the Age of Deconstruction; 13. Readymade Desire; 14. Water under the Bridge: From Tango Palace to Mud; 15. Fervently Impossible: The Group Idea and Its Legacy; 16. Noise, Musication, Beethoven, and Solid Sound: New Music and Theater; 17. Flat-Out Vision; 18. The Absolved Riddle: Sovereign Pleasure and the Baroque Subject in the Tragicomedies of John Fletcher; 19. ""Set Me Where You Stand"": Revising the Abyss; 20. Limits of Performance: The Insane Root; Notes; Previous Publications; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-333) and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-9288-2

OCLC:

191953059