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Metatheater and Modernity - Baroque and Neobaroque (Hardcover)
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Metatheater and Modernity - Baroque and Neobaroque (Hardcover)
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Metatheater and Modernity: Baroque and Neobaroque is the first work
to link the study of metatheater with the concepts of baroque and
neobaroque. Arguing that the onset of European modernity in the
early seventeenth century and both the modernist and the
postmodernist periods of the twentieth century witnessed a
flourishing of the phenomenon of theater that reflects on itself as
theater, the author reexamines the concepts of metatheater,
baroque, and neobaroque through a pairing and close analysis of
seventeenth and twentieth century plays. The comparisons include
Jean Rotrou's The True Saint Genesius with Jean-Paul Sartre's Kean
and Jean Genet's The Blacks; Pierre Corneille's L'Illusion comique
with Tony Kushner's The Illusion; Gian Lorenzo Bernini's The
Impresario with Luigi Pirandello's theater-in-theater trilogy;
Shakespeare's Hamlet with Pirandello's Henry IV and Tom Stoppard's
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead; Moliere's Impromptu de
Versailles with "impromptus" by Jean Cocteau, Jean Giraudoux, and
Eugene Ionesco. Metatheater and Modernity also examines the role of
technology in the creating and breaking of illusions in both
centuries. In contrast to previous work on metatheater, it
emphasizes the metatheatrical role of comedy. Metatheater, the
author concludes, is both performance and performative: it
accomplishes a perceptual transformation in its audience both by
defending theater and exposing the illusory quality of the world
outside.
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