Naming Theatre: Demonstrative Diagnosis in Performance

✍ Scribed by James Frieze (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2009
Tongue: English
Leaves: 223
Series: Performance Interventions
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-vii
Introduction: Improper Naming....Pages 1-28
Authorship: A Trick of the I....Pages 29-48
Assimilation: Sounding Through the Surface....Pages 49-72
Demonstration: Illustrative Irony....Pages 73-94
Diagnosis: Putting Medical History under the Knife....Pages 95-109
Programming: The Designated Blueprint....Pages 110-127
Disclosure: Transcript and Testimony....Pages 128-141
Monstrosity: Branding the Phatic....Pages 142-154
Graphting: Plotting the Body as Puzzle....Pages 155-166
Supplement: Naming Critical Acts....Pages 167-184
Back Matter....Pages 185-215

✦ Subjects

Theatre History; Theatre and Performance Studies; Literature, general; Twentieth-Century Literature; Performing Arts

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