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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Olga TaxidouPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: Red Globe Press Dimensions: Width: 13.80cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.442kg ISBN: 9781403941008ISBN 10: 1403941009 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 09 November 2007 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: Awaiting stock Table of ContentsList of Illustrations.- Preface.- Acknowledgements.- Introduction: Savages, Gods, Robots and Revolutionaries.- Puppets and Actors.- The Playwright, the Director and the Actress.- '...as if the words themselves could sing and shine': Poetic Drama and Theatricality.- Sada Yakko, Mitchio Ito and Mei Lan-fang: Orientalism, Interculturalism and the Performance Event.- Greeks and Other Savages: Neo-Hellenism, Primitivism and Performance.- 'The Revolution said to the Theatre...': Performance and Engagement.- Notes .- Name Index.- Subject Index.Reviews'Enjoyable to read, informative and illuminating.' - Jon Erickson. Ohio State University, USA Author InformationOLGA TAXIDOU is a Reader in the Department of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh, UK, where she teaches theatre and performance studies. She is the author of The Mask: A Periodical Performance by Edward Gordon Craig (1998), Tragedy, Modernity and Mourning (2004) and co-editor of Modernism: An Anthology of Sources and Documents (1998, 2002) Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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