Death in modern theatre : stages of mortality /
Death in modern theatre offers a unique account of modern Western theatre, focusing on the ways in which dramatists and theatre-makers have explored historically informed ideas about death and dying in their work. It investigates the opportunities theatre affords to reflect on the end of life in a c...
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| Natura: | Licensed eBooks |
| Lingua: | inglese |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press
2019.
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| Serie: | Theatre (Manchester, England)
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| Accesso online: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvnb7mxk |
Sommario:
- Front Matter; Dedication; Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Introduction: Stages of mortality; Beyond the veil: sensing death in symbolist theatre; Fantastical representations of death in First World War drama; The absurd drama of modern death denial; Theatres of catastrophe after Auschwitz and Hiroshima; The drama of dying in the early twenty-first century; Conclusion: Unending; References; Index