Adrian Curtin

Death in modern theatre

Stages of mortality

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book analyses representations of death and dying in modern Western theatre from the late nineteenth century onward, examining how and why historically informed conceptions of mortality are dramatized and staged. -- .

Produktdetails

• Theatre: Theory â Practice â Performance
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 352g
• ISBN-13: 9781526191236
• ISBN-10: 1526191237
• Artikelnr.: 72702584

Autorenporträt

Adrian Curtin is Senior Lecturer in Drama at the University of Exeter

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: stages of mortality 1 Beyond the veil: sensing death in
symbolist theatre 2 Fantastical representations of death in First World War
drama 3 The absurd drama of modern death denial 4 Theatres of catastrophe
after Auschwitz and Hiroshima 5 The drama of dying in the early
twenty-first century Conclusion: unending References Index