Dark Matter : Invisibility in Drama, Theater, and Performance.
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- 9780472029686
- 792.01
- PN1696
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.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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