Eroticism and Death in Theatre and Performance.
Title:
Eroticism and Death in Theatre and Performance.
Author:
Gritzner, Karoline.
ISBN:
9781907396052
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (282 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Figures -- 4.1 Gennaro murders his mother Lucretia in the 2007 International Victor Hugo Festival production of Lucretia Borgia (1833) -- 4.2. Henri demanding one last 'kiss' from Jeanne in the University of Glamorgan's 2009 production of The Final Kiss (1912) -- 4.3 Joubert's severed hand in the University of Glamorgan's 2009 production of The Kiss of Blood (1929) -- 4.4 Hélène licks her husband's severed hand in the University of Glamorgan's 2009 production of The Kiss of Blood (1929) -- 11.1 Ron Athey in Solar Anus -- 11.2 Sonia Segura and Teresa Vallejo in La Fura dels Baus's production of XXX -- 11.3 Ron Athey in Solar Anus -- 12.1 Davis Freeman, Reflection -- 12.2 Adrian Howells, Foot Washing for the Sole -- 12.3 Angela Bartram, Tonguing -- 12.4 Jiva Parthipan, LICK -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Introduction by Karoline Gritzner -- 1 Some Eros-Thanatos interfaces in Attic Tragedy by David Rudkin -- 2 Dying for love: the tragicomedy of Shakespeare's Cleopatra by Robert Wilcher -- 3 Desire and destruction in the drama of Georg Büchner by Karoline Gritzner -- 4 Labyrinths of the taboo: theatrical journeys of eroticism and death in Parisian culture by Richard J. Hand -- 5 The kiss of love and death: Eros and Thanatos in the opera by Dieter Borchmeyer -- 6 Eros/sex, death/murder: sensuality, homicide and culture in Musil, Brecht and the Neue Sachlichkeit by George Hunka -- 7 The living corpse: a metaphysic for theatre by Dic Edwards -- 8 Flirting with disaster by David Ian Rabey -- 9 Howard Barker's 'monstrous assaults': eroticism, death and the antique text by Graham Saunders -- 10 'Welcome to the house of fun': Eros, Thanatos, and the uncanny in grand illusions by Michael Mangan -- 11 Visions of Xs: experiencing La Fura dels Baus's XXX and Ron Athey's Solar Anus by Roberta Mock.
12 La petite mort: erotic encounters in One to One performance by Rachel Zerihan -- 13 Saint Nick: a parallax view of Nick Cave by David Pattie -- 14 Afterword: The corpse and its sexuality by Howard Barker -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
Exploring a range of topics, including Greek tragedy, Shakespearean theater, contemporary British plays, opera, and the theatricality of Parisian culture, this compilation provides new perspectives on the relationship between Eros and Death in a series of dramatic texts, theatrical practices, and cultural performances. Detailed and analytical, these informative essays demonstrate how changing attitudes towards sexuality and deathopposed but entangled passionswere reflected in theater throughout the course of history. Psychoanalytical and philosophical models are also referenced in this work that features essays from dramatists Dic Edwards, David Ian Rabey, and David Rudkin.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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