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The theatrical gamut : notes for a post-Beckettian stage

This collection of original essays in honor of American drama critic Ruby Cohn captures the rich mixture of discourses on the act of theater. The variety of approaches - from formalist to feminist, pays tribute to the centrality of Beckett in any evaluation of just what constitutes the "modern" in modern, contemporary, post-modern, and experimental drama
Print Book, English, ©1995
University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, ©1995
Aufsatzsammlung
xi, 304 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
9780472105830, 0472105833
32014611
Preface / Enoch Brater
Back to Bali / John Russell Brown
Training the French actor: From exercise to experiment / Bernard Dort
Molly's "Happy Nights" and Winnie's "Happy DAys" / Antonia Rodriguez-Gago
Beckett's German context / Martin Esslin
Memory inscribed in the body: Krapp's last tape and the Noh Play Izutsu / Yasunari Takahashi
Delogocentering silence: Beckett's ultimate unwording / Carla Locatelli
Consorting with spirits: The arcane craft of Beckett's later drama / H. Porter Abbott
All my sons after the fall: Arthur Miller and rage for order / Hersh Zeifman
"The garden is a mess": Maternal space in bowles, Glaspell, Robins / Elin Diamond
Paranoia and celebrity in American dramatic writing: 1970-90 / John Orr
The dramaturgy of the drean play: Monologues by Breuer, Chaikin, Shepard / Bill Coco
"Codes form a mixed-up machine": The disintergrating actor in beckett, shepard, and surprisingly, Shakespeare / Gerry McCarthy
"Aroun the Worl": The signifyin(g) theater of Suzan-Lori Parks / Linda Ben-Zvi
Is the English epic over? / Janelle Reinelt
Acting out the state agenda: Berlin, 1993 / Sue-Ellen Case
Sitelines: A ground for theater / Jin Eigo
Afterthought from the vanishing point: Theater at the end of real / Herbert Blau
Afterword / Joseph Chaikin