The Dubious Spectacle: Extremities of Theater, 1976-2000Spanning 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. |
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Page xi
... Beckett astride of a grave , been equivocating about Brecht and his cri- tique of dramatic form that became second nature in theory . What was at stake is tragic vision , now thought of as disempowering , but which at the perceptual ...
... Beckett astride of a grave , been equivocating about Brecht and his cri- tique of dramatic form that became second nature in theory . What was at stake is tragic vision , now thought of as disempowering , but which at the perceptual ...
Page xiv
... Beckett still alive, and along with afterthoughts on earlier writings there are references to projects under way, the study of photography (men- tioned before) and a book on fashion (now published).7 Both of these were impelled by an ...
... Beckett still alive, and along with afterthoughts on earlier writings there are references to projects under way, the study of photography (men- tioned before) and a book on fashion (now published).7 Both of these were impelled by an ...
Page xviii
... Beckett's plays or the scabrous mystifications of Genet's — turning identity inside out , queering even the queer — felt more efficacious , because they were ( as the saying went , moving into the sixties ) where the action is . And ...
... Beckett's plays or the scabrous mystifications of Genet's — turning identity inside out , queering even the queer — felt more efficacious , because they were ( as the saying went , moving into the sixties ) where the action is . And ...
Page xix
... encounters back in the fifties and sixties with Brecht , Beckett , and Genet . To be sure , whatever their charms , Didi and Gogo , Anna Fierling, Madame Irma were not exactly scientific or literary—and Introduction xix.
... encounters back in the fifties and sixties with Brecht , Beckett , and Genet . To be sure , whatever their charms , Didi and Gogo , Anna Fierling, Madame Irma were not exactly scientific or literary—and Introduction xix.
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... Beckett might say, encapsulating thus the unspeakable whole truth of its fatal attraction—whatever it might be. So far as I understand that obsession, it arose from the grounds of impossibility out of unabat- ing desire, in theater, now ...
... Beckett might say, encapsulating thus the unspeakable whole truth of its fatal attraction—whatever it might be. So far as I understand that obsession, it arose from the grounds of impossibility out of unabat- ing desire, in theater, now ...
Contents
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2 The Impossible Takes a Little Time | 18 |
3 Spacing Out in the American Theater | 37 |
Rehearsing the Resistance | 53 |
5 A Dove in My Chimney | 62 |
An Analytic Scenario | 70 |
The Grail of the Voice | 118 |
Chills and Fever Mourning and the Vanities of the Sublime | 132 |
13 Readymade Desire | 199 |
From Tango Palace to Mud | 206 |
The Group Idea and Its Legacy | 215 |
New Music and Theater | 230 |
17 FlatOut Vision | 246 |
Sovereign Pleasure and the Baroque Subject in the Tragicomedies of John Fletcher | 265 |
Revising the Abyss | 281 |
The Insane Root | 307 |
9 The Dubious Spectacle of Collective Identity | 137 |
Subtext of a Syllabus for the Arts in America | 157 |
Educating the American Theater | 181 |
12 The Pipe Dreams of ONeill in the Age of Deconstruction | 189 |
Notes | 321 |
Previous Publications | 335 |
Index | 337 |
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