03949nam 2200625Ia 450 991045644170332120200520144314.01-58729-034-0(CKB)111004365704528(EBL)836754(OCoLC)44960121(SSID)ssj0000219834(PQKBManifestationID)11192094(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000219834(PQKBWorkID)10247717(PQKB)11557107(MiAaPQ)EBC836754(MdBmJHUP)muse19451(Au-PeEL)EBL836754(CaPaEBR)ebr10554412(EXLCZ)9911100436570452819901210d1991 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe performance of power[electronic resource] theatrical discourse and politics /edited by Sue-Ellen Case and Janelle Reinelt1st ed.Iowa City University of Iowa Press19911 online resource (306 p.)Studies in theatre history and cultureDescription based upon print version of record.0-87745-318-7 Includes bibliographical references.Contents; Sue-Ellen Case and Janelle ReineltIntroduction,; Materialist Semiotics; Kim F. Hall: Sexual Politics and Cultural Identity in The Masque of Blackness; Sarah Bryant-Bertail: The Good Soldier Schwejk as Dialectical Theater; David Savran: Revolution . . . History . . . Theater: The Politics of the Wooster Group's Second Trilogy; J. Ellen Gainor: Bernard Shaw and the Drama of Imperialism; Deconstruction; Gregory W. Bredbeck: Constructing Patroclus: The High and Low Discourses of Renaissance Sodomy; Jeffrey D. Mason: The Politics of MetamoraSue-Ellen Case: The Eurocolonial Reception of Sanskrit PoeticsRevealing Surveillance Strategies; Joseph Roach: The Artificial Eye: Augustan Theater and the Empire of the Visible; Barry B. Witham: The Playhouse and the Committee; Janice Carlisle: Spectacle as Government: Dickens and the Working-Class Audience; Constructing Utopia; Nina Auerbach: Victorian Players and Sages; Spencer Golub: Charlie Chaplin, Soviet Icon; Janelle Reinelt: Theorizing Utopia: Edward Bond's War Plays; The Academic Institution and the Production of Knowledge; Thomas Postlewait: IntroductionMargaret B. Wilkerson: Demographics and the AcademySimon Williams: The Challenge to Professional Training and Development; Jon Whitmore: Integrating Instruction, Production, and Research; Gay Gibson Cima: Conferring Power in the Theater; Bruce A. McConachie: New Historicism and American Theater History: Toward an Interdisciplinary Paradigm for Scholarship; Marvin Carlson: The Theory of History; Notes on ContributorsRecently in the field of theatre studies there has been an increasing amount of debate and dissonance regarding the borders of its territory, its methodologies, subject matter, and scholarly perspectives. The nature of this debate could be termed ""political"" and, in fact, concerns ""the performance of power""-the struggle over power relations embedded in texts, methodologies, and the academy itself.This striking new collection of nineteen divergent essays represents this performance of power and the way in which the recent convergence of new critical theories with histoStudies in theatre history and culture.TheaterDramaHistory and criticismElectronic books.Theater.DramaHistory and criticism.792Case Sue-Ellen158341Reinelt Janelle G175380MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910456441703321The performance of power2484862UNINA