The performance of power : theatrical discourse and politics / edited by Sue-Ellen Case and Janelle Reinelt.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Case, Sue-Ellen.

Reinelt, Janelle G.

Series:

Studies in theatre history and culture.

Studies in theatre history and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theater.

Drama--History and criticism.

Drama.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 284 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 1991.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Recently in the field of theatre studies there has been an increasing amount of debate and dissonance regarding the borders of its territory, its methodologies, subject matter, and scholarly perspectives. The nature of this debate could be termed ""political"" and, in fact, concerns ""the performance of power""-the struggle over power relations embedded in texts, methodologies, and the academy itself.This striking new collection of nineteen divergent essays represents this performance of power and the way in which the recent convergence of new critical theories with histo

Contents:

Contents; Sue-Ellen Case and Janelle ReineltIntroduction,; Materialist Semiotics; Kim F. Hall: Sexual Politics and Cultural Identity in The Masque of Blackness; Sarah Bryant-Bertail: The Good Soldier Schwejk as Dialectical Theater; David Savran: Revolution . . . History . . . Theater: The Politics of the Wooster Group's Second Trilogy; J. Ellen Gainor: Bernard Shaw and the Drama of Imperialism; Deconstruction; Gregory W. Bredbeck: Constructing Patroclus: The High and Low Discourses of Renaissance Sodomy; Jeffrey D. Mason: The Politics of Metamora

Sue-Ellen Case: The Eurocolonial Reception of Sanskrit Poetics; Revealing Surveillance Strategies; Joseph Roach: The Artificial Eye: Augustan Theater and the Empire of the Visible; Barry B. Witham: The Playhouse and the Committee; Janice Carlisle: Spectacle as Government: Dickens and the Working-Class Audience; Constructing Utopia; Nina Auerbach: Victorian Players and Sages; Spencer Golub: Charlie Chaplin, Soviet Icon; Janelle Reinelt: Theorizing Utopia: Edward Bond's War Plays; The Academic Institution and the Production of Knowledge; Thomas Postlewait: Introduction

Margaret B. Wilkerson: Demographics and the Academy; Simon Williams: The Challenge to Professional Training and Development; Jon Whitmore: Integrating Instruction, Production, and Research; Gay Gibson Cima: Conferring Power in the Theater; Bruce A. McConachie: New Historicism and American Theater History: Toward an Interdisciplinary Paradigm for Scholarship; Marvin Carlson: The Theory of History; Notes on Contributors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781587290343

1587290340

OCLC:

44960121