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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453691703321

Autore

Sofer Andrew <1964->

Titolo

Dark matter : invisibility in drama, theater, and performance / / Andrew Sofer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor : , : University of Michigan Press, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

0-472-05204-7

0-472-02968-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (242 p.)

Collana

Theater--theory/text/performance

Disciplina

792.01

Soggetti

Offstage action (Drama)

Presence (Philosophy)

English drama - History and criticism

American drama - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

How to do things with demons: conjuring performatives in Doctor Faustus -- Quantum mechanicals: desiring bottom in A midsummer night's dream -- Unmasking women: The rover and sexual signification on the Restoration stage -- Unbecoming acts: power, performance, and the self-consuming body in Tennessee Williams's Suddenly last summer -- Bugs in the mind: The archbishop's ceiling and Arthur Miller's prismatic drama -- Invisible wounds: rehearsing trauma on the contemporary stage.

Sommario/riassunto

Meditations on those entities the audience does not see-and their profound significance in the theater