Book Details
Orange Code:32036
Paperback:272 pages
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1. Introduction: Modernism and Anti-Theatricality2. Avant-Garde Scenography and the Frames of the Theatre3. Clown Shows: Anti-Theatricalist Theatricalism in Four Twentieth-Century Plays4. Anti-Theatricality in Twentieth-Century Opera5. ‘All the Frame’s a Stage’: (Anti-)Theatricality and Cinematic Modernism6. Anti-Theatricality and the Limits of Naturalism7. Deploying/Destroying the Primitivist Body in Hurston and Brecht8. John Cage’s Living Theatre9. Mallarmé, Maeterlinck and the Symbolist Via Negativa of Theatre10. Narrative Theatricality: Joseph Conrad’s Drama of the Page11. The Curse of Legitimacy12. Seeming, Seeming: The Illusion of Enough
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Against Theatre shows that the most prominent writers of modern drama shared a radical rejection of the theatre as they knew it. Together with designers, composers and film makers, they plotted to destroy all existing theatres. But from their destruction emerged the most astonishing innovations of modernist theatre.
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