Stages of Terror - Terrorism, Ideology, and Coercion as Theatre History

-Text and Performance QuarterlyUsing Aristotle's Poetics as its point of departure, Anthony Kubiak traces the forms or "stagesof terror as a cultural and performative principle through English Renaissance and Restoration plays, through the modern and postmodern, to contemporary terrorist "theatres."

List of contents

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction

A Panegyric on Aristotle's Poetics

2. Trial and Terror

Medea Prima Facie

3. Trope to Tragedy

Rubbing out Theatre's Corpus

4. Gesturing through the Flames

Commodification, Fetish, and Violence in Restoration Drama

5. The Body's Revision in the Theatre of Mind

Byron's Manfred and Shelley's Prometheus Unbound

6. Terminal Stages

Moderism and Terror

7. Conclusion

History and the Standard Deviations of Terror

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Product details

• Authors: Anthony Kubiak
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.1991
• EAN: 9780253206633
• ISBN: 978-0-253-20663-3
• No. of pages: 226
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 12 mm
• Weight: 335 g
• Series: Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet