Mary Ann Frese Witt

Metatheater and Modernity

Baroque and Neobaroque

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Metatheater and Modernity is the first book to link the concept of metatheater with those of baroque and neobaroque. It refines and probes these concepts through close analyses and comparisons of seventeenth- with twentieth-century plays. Authors discussed include Rotrou, Sartre, Kushner, Bernini, Shakespeare, Pirandello, Molière, Giraudoux.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 488g
• ISBN-13: 9781611475388
• ISBN-10: 1611475384
• Artikelnr.: 36130443

Autorenporträt

Mary Ann Frese Witt received her PhD in Comparative Literature from Harvard University and is now Professor Emerita at North Carolina State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: From Saint Genesius to Saint Genet:
Actors, Martyrs, and Metatheater Chapter 2: La Comédie des comédiens and
the Defense of Theatrical Illusion Chapter 3: La commedia da fare: Baroque
and Neobaroque Metatheater in Bernini and Pirandello Chapter 4: Hamlets and
Meta-Hamlets: Shakespeare, Pirandello, Stoppard Chapter 5: Metatheater as
Manifesto: The Impromptu Epilogue About the Author Bibliography