Theater as Problem : : Modern Drama and Its Place in Literature / / Benjamin Bennett.
Using examples ranging from nineteenth-century Viennese comedy to Friedrich Dürrenmatt's atomic-age theater, Benjamin Bennett explores what is at stake in the theory of drama; what sort of questioning makes up that theory; and in what direction such questioning leads.Bennett takes as his starti...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019] ©1990 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Strindberg and Ibsen: Cubism, Communicative Ethics, and the Theater of Readers
- 2. Cinema, Theater, and Opera: Modem Drama as Hermeneutic Ceremony
- 3. Nestroy and Schnitzler: The Three Societies of Comedy and the Idea of a Textless Theater
- 4. The Church Militant: Audience and Spectator in Rhinoceros
- 5. The Trees Are Sentences: Semiotic Ceremony and Pirandello's Myth of the Theater
- 6. Approximately Five Questions on Dürrenmatt's Die Physiker
- 7. Conclusion: Dramatic History and the History of Drama
- Index