The Theatre of the Real : Yeats, Beckett, and Sondheim /

"This book traces the thread of jouissance (the simultaneous experience of radical pleasure and pain) through three major theatre figures of the twentieth century. Gina Masucci MacKenzie's work engages theatrical text and performance in dialogue with the Lacanian Real, so as to re-envision...

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Main Author: MacKenzie, Gina Masucci
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, 2008.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • What is the theatre of the real?
  • W.B. Yeats: the missed steps of Salome's daughters
  • Beckett: the missing link
  • Stephen Sondheim's "many possibilities": theater of the manifest.