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Title:

Reading modern drama / edited by Alan Ackerman.

Publisher:

University of Toronto Press,

Copyright Date:

c2012

Description:

vi, 306 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Drama--19th century--History and criticism.
Drama--20th century--History and criticism.
Théâtre (Genre littéraire)--19e siècle--Histoire et critique.
Théâtre (Genre littéraire)--20e siècle--Histoire et critique.

Other Authors:

Ackerman, Alan L. (Alan Louis)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Jane Harrison and the savage Dionysus: archaeological voyages, ritual origins, anthropology, and the modern theatre / Julie Stone Peters. "Vinløv i håret": the relationship between women, language, and power in Ibsen's Hedda Gabler / Tanya Thresher -- "¡Silencio, he dicho!": space, language, and characterization as agents of social protest in Lorca's rural tragedies / Bilha Blum -- The money shot: economies of sex, guns, and language in Topdog/Underdog / Myka Tucker-Abramson -- The space stage and the circus: e.e. cummings's Him and Frederick Kiesler's Raumbühne / Allison Carruth -- How to do nothing with words, or waiting for Godot as performativity / Richard Begam -- Reinventing Beckett / S.E. Gontarski -- Uncloseting drama: Gertrude Stein and the Wooster Group / Nick Salvato -- Synge's Playboy and the eugenics of language / Nicholas Crawford -- The Pillowman and the ethics of allegory / Hana Worthen and W.B. Worthen -- Cognitive catharsis in The Caucasian chalk circle / R. Darren Gobert -- Jane Harrison and the savage Dionysus: archaeological voyages, ritual origins, anthropology, and the modern theatre / Julie Stone Peters.

ISBN:

1442612819
9781442612815

OCLC:

(OCoLC)761459384

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)