Reading modern dramaedited by Alan Ackerman.
Reading modern dramaedited by Alan Ackerman.
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, (c)2012.
- 1 online resource (vi, 306 pages) illustrations, portraits.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Gossip girls: Lady Teazle, Nora Helmer, and invisible-hand drama / "Vinløv i håret": the relationship between women, language, and power in Ibsen's Hedda Gabler / "¡Silencio, he dicho!": space, language, and characterization as agents of social protest in Lorca's rural tragedies / The money shot: economies of sex, guns, and language in Topdog/Underdog / The space stage and the circus: e.e. cummings's Him and Frederick Kiesler's Raumbühne / How to do nothing with words, or waiting for Godot as performativity / Reinventing Beckett / Uncloseting drama: Gertrude Stein and the Wooster Group / Synge's Playboy and the eugenics of language / The Pillowman and the ethics of allegory / Cognitive catharsis in The Caucasian chalk circle / Jane Harrison and the savage Dionysus: archaeological voyages, ritual origins, anthropology, and the modern theatre / Joseph Roach -- Tanya Thresher -- Bilha Blum -- Myka Tucker-Abramson -- Allison Carruth -- Richard Begam -- S.E. Gontarski -- Nick Salvato -- Nicholas Crawford -- Hana Worthen and W.B. Worthen -- R. Darren Gobert -- Julie Stone Peters.
9781442661486
Drama--History and criticism.--19th century
Drama--History and criticism.--20th century
Electronic Books.
PN1851 / .R433 2012
Includes bibliographies and index.
Gossip girls: Lady Teazle, Nora Helmer, and invisible-hand drama / "Vinløv i håret": the relationship between women, language, and power in Ibsen's Hedda Gabler / "¡Silencio, he dicho!": space, language, and characterization as agents of social protest in Lorca's rural tragedies / The money shot: economies of sex, guns, and language in Topdog/Underdog / The space stage and the circus: e.e. cummings's Him and Frederick Kiesler's Raumbühne / How to do nothing with words, or waiting for Godot as performativity / Reinventing Beckett / Uncloseting drama: Gertrude Stein and the Wooster Group / Synge's Playboy and the eugenics of language / The Pillowman and the ethics of allegory / Cognitive catharsis in The Caucasian chalk circle / Jane Harrison and the savage Dionysus: archaeological voyages, ritual origins, anthropology, and the modern theatre / Joseph Roach -- Tanya Thresher -- Bilha Blum -- Myka Tucker-Abramson -- Allison Carruth -- Richard Begam -- S.E. Gontarski -- Nick Salvato -- Nicholas Crawford -- Hana Worthen and W.B. Worthen -- R. Darren Gobert -- Julie Stone Peters.
9781442661486
Drama--History and criticism.--19th century
Drama--History and criticism.--20th century
Electronic Books.
PN1851 / .R433 2012