Record Nr.

UNINA9910818106803321

Autore

Witt Mary Ann Frese

Titolo

Metatheater and modernity : baroque and neobaroque / / Mary Ann Frese Witt

Pubbl/distr/stampa


Madison [N.J.], : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, c2013

ISBN

1-283-73460-5

1-61147-539-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (203 p.)

Disciplina

809.2

Soggetti

Play within a play

Drama - 17th century - History and criticism

Drama - 20th century - History and criticism

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

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 From Saint Genesius to Saint Genet; 2 La Comédie des comédiens and the Defense of Theatrical Illusion; 3 La commedia da fare; 4 Hamlet and Meta-Hamlets; 5 Metatheater as Manifesto; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

Metatheater and Modernity is the first book to link the concept of metatheater with those of baroque and neobaroque. It refines and probes these concepts through close analyses and comparisons of seventeenth with twentieth-century plays. Authors discussed include Rotrou, Sartre, Genet, Corneille, Kushner, Bernini, Shakespeare, Pirandello, Stoppard, Molière, Giraudoux, Ionesco.