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1 online resource (xiv, 257 pages) : illustrations (black and white). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Theatre: Theory - Practice - Performance
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Theatre (Manchester, England)
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| Summary |
Death in modern theatre offers a unique account of modern Western theatre, focusing on the ways in which dramatists and theatre-makers have explored historically informed ideas about death and dying in their work. It investigates the opportunities theatre affords to reflect on the end of life in a compelling and socially meaningful fashion.In a series of interrelated, mostly chronological, micronarratives beginning in the late nineteenth century and ending in the early twenty-first century, this book considers how and why death and dying are represented at certain historical moments using dramaturgy and aesthetics that challenge audiences' conceptions, sensibilities, and sense-making faculties. It includes a mix of well-known and lesser-known plays from an international range of dramatists and theatre-makers, and offers original interpretations through close reading and performance analysis. |
| Contents |
Front Matter; Dedication; Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Introduction: Stages of mortality; Beyond the veil: sensing death in symbolist theatre; Fantastical representations of death in First World War drama; The absurd drama of modern death denial; Theatres of catastrophe after Auschwitz and Hiroshima; The drama of dying in the early twenty-first century; Conclusion: Unending; References; Index |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Death in the theater.
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Death in the theater. |
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Drama -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
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Drama. |
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21st century |
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Drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Drama -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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19th century |
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1800-2099 |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Curtin, Adrian, 1980- Death in modern theatre. Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2019 9781526124708 (OCoLC)1079208937 |
| ISBN |
9781526124715 (electronic book) |
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1526124718 (electronic book) |
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9781526124722 (electronic publication) |
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1526124726 (electronic publication) |
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9781526124708 |
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152612470X |
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1526124726 |
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