The Final Curtain: The Art of Dying on Stage (Anthem Studies in Theatre and Performance)

Senelick, Laurence

Anthem Press（2024/08発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 206 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781839993114
• DDC分類 792.028

Full Description

It is a book about dying, or, more accurately, about the representation of dying in the theatre. Its chief concern is how actors undertook to translate words and concepts into forms legible and significant to an audience. It deals with the ways in which playwrights wrote about death and attitudes towards death in their cultures. Nevertheless, the emphasis is on the practice of acting. This "death spectacle" runs the gamut. From the Greek tragic stage which was highly selective in determining which deaths it (re)enacted to the elaborately stylized murders and suicides in the Kabuki to the lavish blood-letting of the Elizabethans to the deathbed visitations of the modern era, what was acceptable and/or enjoyable fluctuates wildly.

Contents

List of Figures; Introduction; 1. Early Stages; 2. Murther Most Foul; 3. Death- Defying Exploits; 4. Sick unto Death; 5. Shadow and Substance; Epilogue: Post- Mortem; Bibliography; Index.