Peering behind the curtain : disability, illness, and the extraordinary body in contemporary theater / / edited by Thomas Fahy and Kimball King
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| Titolo: |
Peering behind the curtain : disability, illness, and the extraordinary body in contemporary theater / / edited by Thomas Fahy and Kimball King
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| Pubblicazione: | New York : , : Routledge, , 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (194 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 194 |
| Soggetto topico: | American drama - 20th century - History and criticism |
| People with disabilities in literature | |
| Literature and medicine - English-speaking countries - History - 20th century | |
| English drama - 20th century - History and criticism | |
| Abnormalities, Human, in literature | |
| Human body in literature | |
| Diseases in literature | |
| Medicine in literature | |
| Sick in literature | |
| Altri autori: |
FahyThomas Richard
KingKimball
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| Note generali: | First published in 2002 by Routledge. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Peering Behind the Curtain; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; General Editor's Note; Peering behind the Curtain: An Introduction; Part I; Between Two Worlds: The Emerging Aesthetic of the National Theater of the Deaf; ""Better Me Than You"": Children of a Lesser God, Deaf Education, and Paternalism; Violence, Pain, Pleasure: Wit; Making an Art out of Suffering: Bill T. Jones's Uncle Tom; ""It Hurts?"": Afflicted Bodies in Beckett's Drama; Depression-the Undiagnosed Disability in Marsha Norman's 'night, Mother |
| ""Some Unheard-of Thing"": Freaks, Families, and Coming of Age in The Member of the WeddingYoung Doctors Come to See the Elephant Man; Part II; Acting without Limits: Profiles of Three Physically Disabled Performers; Two-Act Play; An Interview with James MacDonald; Balance Is Stillness; Contributors; Index | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Peering behind the curtain |
| ISBN: | 1-135-30903-5 |
| 1-138-99484-7 | |
| 0-203-95132-8 | |
| 1-135-30896-9 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910790649703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Studies in Modern Drama