LEADER 03047nam 2200553 a 450 001 9910784399203321 005 20230607220947.0 010 $a0-8166-9288-2 035 $a(CKB)1000000000346848 035 $a(EBL)310563 035 $a(OCoLC)191953059 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000141760 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11134536 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000141760 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10090865 035 $a(PQKB)10809878 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC310563 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL310563 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10151250 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000346848 100 $a20010816d2002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe dubious spectacle$b[electronic resource] $eextremities of theater, 1976-2000 /$fHerbert Blau 210 $aMinneapolis $cUniversity of Minnesota Press$dc2002 215 $a1 online resource (374 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8166-3813-6 311 $a0-8166-3812-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 321-333) and index. 327 $aContents; Introduction; 1. Afterthought from the Vanishing Point: Theater at the End of the Real; 2. The Impossible Takes a Little Time; 3. Spacing Out in the American Theater; 4. From Red Hill to the Renaissance: Rehearsing the Resistance; 5. A Dove in My Chimney; 6. Elsinore: An Analytic Scenario; 7. Deep Throat: The Grail of the Voice; 8. A Valediction: Chills and Fever, Mourning, and the Vanities of the Sublime; 9. The Dubious Spectacle of Collective Identity; 10. Fantasia and Simulacra: Subtext of a Syllabus for the Arts in America 327 $a11. With Your Permission: Educating the American Theater12. The Pipe Dreams of O'Neill in the Age of Deconstruction; 13. Readymade Desire; 14. Water under the Bridge: From Tango Palace to Mud; 15. Fervently Impossible: The Group Idea and Its Legacy; 16. Noise, Musication, Beethoven, and Solid Sound: New Music and Theater; 17. Flat-Out Vision; 18. The Absolved Riddle: Sovereign Pleasure and the Baroque Subject in the Tragicomedies of John Fletcher; 19. ""Set Me Where You Stand"": Revising the Abyss; 20. Limits of Performance: The Insane Root; Notes; Previous Publications; Index 330 $aSpanning a quarter of a century, the essays in this book rehearse, in the movement of memory and cross-reflection, an extensive career in theater. The work of Herbert Blau-his directing, writing, and criticism-has been a determining force during this period as theater encounters theory. 606 $aTheater$xPhilosophy 606 $aDrama$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc 615 0$aTheater$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aDrama$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc. 676 $a792/.01 700 $aBlau$b Herbert$0710755 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910784399203321 996 $aThe dubious spectacle$93691791 997 $aUNINA