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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... symbols and the juxtaposition of ordinarily non - related realistic symbols . The core of meaning of the expressionist theory for the theatre consists of eight constituents all of which center around a perception of reality , which is ...
... symbols and the juxtaposition of ordinarily non - related realistic symbols . The core of meaning of the expressionist theory for the theatre consists of eight constituents all of which center around a perception of reality , which is ...
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... symbols used , but the relation between those symbols . The connection between the symbols he calls " the structure of the picture . . . the possibility of this structure [ is ] the pictorial form of the picture " ( 2.15 ) . The ...
... symbols used , but the relation between those symbols . The connection between the symbols he calls " the structure of the picture . . . the possibility of this structure [ is ] the pictorial form of the picture " ( 2.15 ) . The ...
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... symbol of an impotent person caught in a crippling or devastated environment . His presence portends further sterility and loss for himself and those around him . Several of these lame or limping sterility symbols appear in Southern ...
... symbol of an impotent person caught in a crippling or devastated environment . His presence portends further sterility and loss for himself and those around him . Several of these lame or limping sterility symbols appear in Southern ...
Contents
SPATIOTEMPORALITY AS THEATER | 1 |
THE LIVING | 11 |
A CRITICAL | 19 |
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