Metatheater and modernity : baroque and neobaroque / Mary Ann Frese Witt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Witt, Mary Ann Frese.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Play within a play.

Drama--17th century--History and criticism.

Drama.

Drama--20th century--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (203 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Metatheater and Modernity is the first book to link the concept of metatheater with those of baroque and neobaroque. It refines and probes these concepts through close analyses and comparisons of seventeenth with twentieth-century plays. Authors discussed include Rotrou, Sartre, Genet, Corneille, Kushner, Bernini, Shakespeare, Pirandello, Stoppard, Molière, Giraudoux, Ionesco.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 From Saint Genesius to Saint Genet; 2 La Comédie des comédiens and the Defense of Theatrical Illusion; 3 La commedia da fare; 4 Hamlet and Meta-Hamlets; 5 Metatheater as Manifesto; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-73460-5

1-61147-539-2

OCLC:

845247068