Theater of Essence

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Northwestern University Press, 1984 - Всего страниц: 218
The sixteen essays collected in The Theater of Essence define the point of view of one of the most influential theater critics of our time. Jan Kott's subjects extend from Tadeusz Borowski, Ibsen, Ionesco, and Gogol to Bunraku theater in Japan, Yiddish theater in New York, and Grotowski's theater in Poland.

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Introduction
1
Shakespeares Riddle
7
The Author of Comedy or The Inspector General
11
Ibsen Read Anew
31
Witkiewicz or The Dialectic of Anachronism
61
On Gombrowicz
83
lonesco or A Pregnant Death
97
Noh or About Signs
109
The Icon of the Absurd
129
Why Should I Take Part in the Sacred Dance?
139
The End of the Impossible Theater
147
Kantor and Brook
159
A European Education
167
A Cage in Search of a Bird
179
The Serpents Sting
189
The Seriousness of Theater
207

Bunraku and Kabuki or About Imitation
117

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JAN KOTT, formerly professor of literature at the University of Warsaw, left Poland for the United States in 1966. He has taught at Yale, the University of California at Berkeley, and the State University of New York at Stony Brook, as well as overseas in Japan, at the Catholic University at Louvain in Belgium, and at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. In 1964 he received the Herder Award in Vienna, and in 1984 the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism. His other books include The Theater of Essence, The Bottom Translation, The Eating of the Gods, and Four Decades of Polish Essays (editor), all published by Northwestern University Press.

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