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The Death of Character : Perspectives on Theater after Modernism /

Extremely well written, and exceedingly well informed, this is a work that opens a variety of important questions in sophisticated and theoretically nuanced ways. It is hard to imagine a better tour guide than Fuchs for a trip through the last thirty years of, as she puts it, what we used to call th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Fuchs, Elinor
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1996.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. 1. Modern after modernism: The rise and fall of the character named character
  • Pattern over character : the modern mysterium
  • Counter-stagings : Ibsen against the grain
  • pt. 2. Theater after modernism: Signaling through the signs
  • Another version of pastoral
  • When bad girls play good theaters
  • Theater as shopping
  • Postmodernism and the scene of theater
  • Reviews and articles 1979-1993 : reports from an emerging culture: Des McAnuff's Leave it to beaver is dead
  • Richard Schechner's The balcony
  • Andrei Serban's The marriage of Figaro
  • The death of character
  • Peter Sellars's The Count of Monte Cristo
  • Robert Wilson's Alcestis
  • Elizabeth LeCompte and the Wooster Group's The road to immortality (part three), Frank Dell's The temptation of Saint Antony
  • JoAnne Akalaitis's Cymbeline
  • On the AIDS quilt, The performance of mourning.