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Starting from the assumption that all theater is at least implicitly participatory, Professor Whitaker approaches thirteen plays, from Ibsen's Rosmersholm to Beckett's Endgame and Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. He asks the reader to commit himself to a variety of points of view--those of witnesses, actors, directors, and characte



Table of Contents
*Frontmatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. v*A Retrospective Word, pg. 1*One: Speaking of Playing, pg. 5*Two: Playing the Player, pg. 9*Three: Killing Ourselves, pg. 35*Four: Seeing the Hidden, pg. 58*Five: Dreaming the Music, pg. 79*Six: Undoing, pg. 102*Seven: Bearing Witness, pg. 126*Some Texts Behind the Text, pg. 179*Index, pg. 189

Fields of Play in Modern Drama Princeton Legacy

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      Publisher: Princeton University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 3/8/2015 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780691607726, 978-0691607726
      ISBN10: 0691607729

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Starting from the assumption that all theater is at least implicitly participatory, Professor Whitaker approaches thirteen plays, from Ibsen's Rosmersholm to Beckett's Endgame and Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. He asks the reader to commit himself to a variety of points of view--those of witnesses, actors, directors, and characte



      Table of Contents
      *Frontmatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. v*A Retrospective Word, pg. 1*One: Speaking of Playing, pg. 5*Two: Playing the Player, pg. 9*Three: Killing Ourselves, pg. 35*Four: Seeing the Hidden, pg. 58*Five: Dreaming the Music, pg. 79*Six: Undoing, pg. 102*Seven: Bearing Witness, pg. 126*Some Texts Behind the Text, pg. 179*Index, pg. 189

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