Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-333) and index.
Introduction; 1. Afterthought from the Vanishing Point: Theater at the End of the Real; 2. The Impossible Takes a Little Time; 3. Spacing Out in the American Theater; 4. From Red Hill to the Renaissance: Rehearsing the Resistance; 5. A Dove in My Chimney; 6. Elsinore: An Analytic Scenario; 7. Deep Throat: The Grail of the Voice; 8. A Valediction: Chills and Fever, Mourning, and the Vanities of the Sublime; 9. The Dubious Spectacle of Collective Identity; 10. Fantasia and Simulacra: Subtext of a Syllabus for the Arts in America.
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Spanning a quarter of a century, the essays in this book rehearse, in the movement of memory and cross-reflection, an extensive career in theater. The work of Herbert Blau--his directing, writing, and criticism--has been a determining force during this period as theater encounters theory.