Text and PresentationUniversity Press of America, 1990 - 112 pages This volume presents the best of the papers presented at the 1989 Comparative Drama Conference held annually at the University of Florida under the auspices of the Classics Department. Contents: Spatio-Temporality as Theater Performance; Subversive Sophocles, Anarchic Aeschylus: The Living Theatre and Greek Tragedy; Expressionism and Deconstructionism: A Critical Comparison; Theatrical Revolution: Edward Gordon Craig's 'Much Ado About Nothing' (1903); Arnolt Bronnen's Austro-Expressionist War Plays; Camera Language: Picturing Pinter's The Homecoming; Doubling and Irrationality in Pier Paolo Pasolini's Medea; The Naming of Rance: Orton's Allusions to Henrik Ibsen in What the Butler Saw; From Scenario to Script: O'Neill's Use of History in The Creation of A Touch of the Poet and More Stately Mansions; Ferdinand Vanek, or Compliant Protest; Woman Takes Center Stage: Three Versions of "The Female Condition" on the German Theatre Stage Today; Beauty Non-Beauty in Euripides' Orestes and Metope XXVII From the Parthenon; Haunting Ourselves: History and Utopia in Howard Brenton's Bloody Poetry and Greenland; and Lameness and Limping in Southern Plays. |
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... beginning with elementary perceptions and representa- tions . [ We agree on ] the importance of these forms ... , but differ ... in taking them not as " transcendental " but as forms of the most immediate reality . . . We will give the ...
... beginning with elementary perceptions and representa- tions . [ We agree on ] the importance of these forms ... , but differ ... in taking them not as " transcendental " but as forms of the most immediate reality . . . We will give the ...
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... Beginning at midnight , the central scene wallows in death -- the dead are tunneling through the mountain , screams of " brother " and " aqua " punctuate the night . The scene is elevated into ritual by Latin chanting from the mass ...
... Beginning at midnight , the central scene wallows in death -- the dead are tunneling through the mountain , screams of " brother " and " aqua " punctuate the night . The scene is elevated into ritual by Latin chanting from the mass ...
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... beginning of the play . Permit also builds through complication ; the chief formal contribution of Kohout is the dog , a kind of metaphorical canine counterpart to the typical Czech intellectual . At the end of the play the dog destroys ...
... beginning of the play . Permit also builds through complication ; the chief formal contribution of Kohout is the dog , a kind of metaphorical canine counterpart to the typical Czech intellectual . At the end of the play the dog destroys ...
Contents
SPATIOTEMPORALITY AS THEATER | 1 |
THE LIVING | 11 |
A CRITICAL | 19 |
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