Dark Matter : Invisibility in Drama, Theater, and Performance.
Sofer, Andrew.
Dark Matter : Invisibility in Drama, Theater, and Performance. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (242 pages) - Theater: Theory/Text/Performance Series . - Theater: Theory/Text/Performance Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Dark Matter: An Introduction -- 1 - How to Do Things with Demons: Conjuring Performatives in 'Doctor Faustus' -- 2 - Quantum Mechanicals: Desiring Bottom in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' -- 3 - Unmasking Women: 'The Rover' and Sexual Signification on the Restoration Stage -- 4 - Unbecoming Acts: Power, Performance, and the Self-Consuming Body in Tennessee Williams's 'Suddenly Last Summer' -- 5 - Bugs in the Mind: 'The Archbishop's Ceiling' and Arthur Miller's Prismatic Drama -- 6 - Invisible Wounds: Rehearsing Trauma on the Contemporary Stage -- Notes -- Glossary -- Index.
Meditations on those entities the audience does not see--and their profound significance in the theater.
9780472029686
Presence (Philosophy).
Electronic books.
PN1696
792.01
Dark Matter : Invisibility in Drama, Theater, and Performance. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (242 pages) - Theater: Theory/Text/Performance Series . - Theater: Theory/Text/Performance Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Dark Matter: An Introduction -- 1 - How to Do Things with Demons: Conjuring Performatives in 'Doctor Faustus' -- 2 - Quantum Mechanicals: Desiring Bottom in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' -- 3 - Unmasking Women: 'The Rover' and Sexual Signification on the Restoration Stage -- 4 - Unbecoming Acts: Power, Performance, and the Self-Consuming Body in Tennessee Williams's 'Suddenly Last Summer' -- 5 - Bugs in the Mind: 'The Archbishop's Ceiling' and Arthur Miller's Prismatic Drama -- 6 - Invisible Wounds: Rehearsing Trauma on the Contemporary Stage -- Notes -- Glossary -- Index.
Meditations on those entities the audience does not see--and their profound significance in the theater.
9780472029686
Presence (Philosophy).
Electronic books.
PN1696
792.01