Death in Modern Theatre : Stages of Mortality (Theatre: Theory - Practice - Performance)

Curtin, Adrian

Manchester University Press（2019/02発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 272 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781526124708
• DDC分類 809.293548

Full Description

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

Introduction: stages of mortality
1 Beyond the veil: sensing death in symbolist theatre
2 Fantastical representations of death in First World War drama
3 The absurd drama of modern death denial
4 Theatres of catastrophe after Auschwitz and Hiroshima
5 The drama of dying in the early twenty-first century
Conclusion: unending

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