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A collection of essays that stands witness to the diverse methodologies which have shaped contemporary readings of dramatic texts and analyses of play productions. The essays exhibit a pluralistic approach to aesthetics, incorporating conceptual discoveries in modern philosophy, psychology, political thought, linguistics, semiology, and social anthropology. The works of such authors as Louis Althusser, Gilles Deleuze and Jean-Francois Lyotard are studied for their relevance to a new understanding of drama and theatre criticism.

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In this collection of pioneering essays, Mohammad Kowsar offers fresh and penetrating insights into an impressive range of dramatic classics. His methodology is drawn from such leading postmodern theorists as Julia Kristeva, Gilles Deleuze, Jean Francois Lyotard, and Georges Dumezil whose insights, despite their enormous influence in a wide range of contemporary cultural analysis, are allied searchingly to the field of theatre for the first time in these essays. (Marvin Carlson, The City University of New York) Mohammad Kowsar's achievement in 'The Critical Panopticon' is to analytically reconfigure the theatrical repertory in the light of post-modern European theory. His essays are intricate and clear, possessing far reaching implications for further study in dramatic criticism. (Larry Eilenberg, San Francisco State University)

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The Author: Mohammad Kowsar, Ph.D. is Graduate Coordinator in the Theatre Arts Department of San Francisco State University. He is a 1977-1978 Fulbright scholar, and formerly a director of plays in Tehran, and now in San Francisco. His essays collected in this volume have previously appeared in Theatre Journal, Modern Drama, and Criticism. He has also contributed review-essays and theatre reviews to Theatre Journal and to Theater.

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