Metatheater and modernity [[electronic resource] ] : baroque and neobaroque / / Mary Ann Frese Witt

• Autore: Witt Mary Ann Frese
• Pubblicazione: Madison [N.J.], : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, c2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (203 p.)
• Disciplina: 809.2
• Soggetto topico: Play within a play; Drama - 17th century - History and criticism; Drama - 20th century - History and criticism
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Metatheater and modernity
• ISBN: 1-283-73460-5; 1-61147-539-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910462239203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II