Metatheater and modernity
Subtitle: baroque and neobaroque
By: Mary Ann Frese Witt
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Madison [N.J.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9781611475388; 9781611475395
Subjects: Drama; Play within a play; History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: From Saint Genesius to Saint Genet: actors, martyrs, and metatheater; title: La comédie des comédiens and the defense of theatrical illusion; title: La commedia da fare: baroque and neobaroque metatheater in Bernini and Pirandello; title: Hamlets and meta-hamlets: Shakespeare, Pirandello, Stoppard; title: Metatheater as manifesto: the impromptu.