Words, space, and the audience
Subtitle: the theatrical tension between empiricism and rationalism
By: Michael Y. Bennett
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230116801
Subjects: Drama; History and criticism; Theater; Psychology; Theater audiences; Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: words, space, and the audience; title: Victorian ideals: Wilde performances in The importance of being earnest and Salome; title: After the great war: contextualizing the self in Italy and Six characters in search of an author; title: 1952 Paris: Waiting for Godot and the great quarrel; title: Cold War tactics: fear in Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?; title: Conclusion: the epistemological quandry over improvisation, impermenance, and lack of a script in performance art: an interview with Coco Fusco.