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Book SynopsisTaken together, these essays enter into an ongoing, fruitful debate about the terms 'modern' and 'drama' and build a much-needed bridge between literary studies and performance studies.
Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Gossip Girls: Lady Teazle, Nora Helmer, and Invisible-Hand Drama 2 Vinl v i h ret: The Relationship between Women, Language, and Power in Ibsen's Hedda Gabler 3 "Silencio, he dicho!" Space, Language, and Characterization as Agents of Social Protest in Lorca's Rural Tragedies 4 The Money Shot: Economies of Sex, Guns, and Language in Topdog/Underdog 5 The Stage Space and the Circus: e.e. cummings's Him and Frederick Kiesler's Raumb hne 6 How to do Nothing With Words, or Waiting for Godot as Performativity 7 Reinventing Beckett 8 Uncloseting Drama: Gertrude Stein and the Wooster Group 9 Synge's Playboy and the Eugenics of Language 10 The Pillowman and the Ethics of Allegory 11 Cognitive Catharsis in The Caucasian Chalk Circle 12 Jane Harrison and the Savage Dionysus: Archaeological Voyages, Ritual Origins, Anthropology, and the Modern Theatre Contributors Index
