Performing Texts / / ed. by Robin F. Jones, Michael Issacharoff.

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Ann...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Package Archive 1898-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Edition:Reprint 2016
Language:English
Series:Anniversary Collection
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Physical Description:1 online resource (157 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • The Mystery of the Play Experience: Quince's Questions
  • Self-Referring Artifacts
  • Much Ado About Doing Things With Words (and Other Means): Some Problems in the Pragmatics of Theatre and Drama
  • Stage Codes
  • Decoding Mnouchkine's Shakespeare (A Grammar of Stage Signs)
  • From Text to Performance
  • A Medieval Prescription for Performance: Le Jeu d'Adam
  • Performance Orientations in Ritual Theatre
  • Postscript or Pinch of Salt: Performance as Mediation or Deconstruction
  • Bibliography
  • Contributors
  • Index