Cover Image

Death in modern theatre : stages of mortality /

Death in modern theater offers a unique account of modern Western theater, focusing on the ways in which dramatists and theatermakers have explored historically informed ideas about death and dying in their work. It investigates the opportunities theater affords to reflect on the end of life in a co...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Curtin, Adrian, 1980- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2019.
Series:	Theatre (Manchester, England)
Subjects:	Death in the theater. Drama > 21st century > History and criticism. Drama > 20th century > History and criticism. Drama > 19th century > History and criticism.

Similar Items

Symptoms of the self : tuberculosis and the making of the modern stage /
by: Barker, Roberta
Published: (2022)

Contemporary women playwrights : into the twenty-first century /
Published: (2013)

Szenen der Wiener Moderne : drei Artefakte und ihre Vorstellungswelten des Jüdischen /
by: Eisele, Theresa
Published: (2021)

Speaking in tongues : language at play in the theatre /
by: Carlson, Marvin, 1935-
Published: (2006)

Speaking in tongues : language at play in the theatre /
by: Carlson, Marvin, 1935-
Published: (2006)

Critical perspectives on contemporary plays by women : the early twenty-first century /
Published: (2021)

Staging the rage : the web of misogyny in modern drama /
Published: (1998)

Jews and theatre in an intercultural context /
Published: (2012)

Tragedy walks the streets : the French Revolution in the making of modern drama /
by: Buckley, Matthew S., 1965-
Published: (2006)

Tragedy walks the streets : the French Revolution in the making of modern drama /
by: Buckley, Matthew S., 1965-
Published: (2006)

Speaking in tongues : language at play in the theatre /
by: Carlson, Marvin, 1935-
Published: (2006)

Terrorism and modern drama /
Published: (1990)

Vietnam protest theatre : the television war on stage /
by: Alter, Nora M., 1962-
Published: (1996)

Essays and scripts on how mothers are portrayed in the theatre : a neglected frontier of feminist scholarship /
Published: (2010)

The modern theatre in revolt /
by: Brown, John Mason, 1900-1969
Published: (1929)

No kidding! : clown as protagonist in twentieth-century theatre /
by: McManus, Donald, 1959-
Published: (2003)

Unsettling acts : performing transnational adoption /
by: Lee, Jieun, 1986-
Published: (2025)

Das Groteske und das Absurde im modernen Drama.
by: Heidsieck, Arnold, 1937-
Published: (1971)

Theatre & time /
by: Wiles, David
Published: (2014)

The "weak" subject : on modernity, eros, and women's playwriting /
by: Anderlini-D'Onofrio, Serena, 1954-
Published: (1997)

The Columbia anthology of modern Japanese drama /
Published: (2014)

Contrasts in the representation of death by Sophocles, Webster, and Strindberg /
by: Eaton, Winifred Kittredge
Published: (1975)

Romantic quest and modern query ; a history of the modern theatre /
by: Driver, Tom F. (Tom Faw), 1925-
Published: (1970)

Dissident dramaturgies : contemporary Irish theatre /
by: Jordan, Eamonn, 1964-
Published: (2010)

The independent theatre in Europe : 1887 to the present /
by: Miller, Anna Irene
Published: (1931)

The moral dilemma of the scientist in modern drama : the inmost force /
by: Hye, Allen E.
Published: (1996)

Ethical speculations in contemporary British theatre /
Published: (2014)

The modern stage and other worlds /
by: Quigley, Austin E., 1942-
Published: (1985)

The birth of modern theatre.
Published: (1977)

Irish theatre in transition : from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first century /
Published: (2015)

Vietnam protest theatre : the television war on stage /
by: Alter, Nora M., 1962-
Published: (1996)

Theater as problem : modern drama and its place in literature /
by: Bennett, Benjamin, 1939-
Published: (1990)

Irish drama and theatre since 1950 /
by: Lonergan, Patrick
Published: (2019)

Dramaturgy of sex on stage in contemporary theatre /
Published: (2024)

Fiery temporalities in theatre and performance : the initiation of history /
by: Wickstrom, Maurya
Published: (2018)

The Cambridge companion to Victorian and Edwardian theatre /
Published: (2004)

Modern theatre and drama /
by: Dace, Letitia
Published: (1973)

Staging the end of the world : theatre in a time of climate crisis /
by: Kulick, Brian
Published: (2023)

Rooms with a view : the stages of community in the modern theater /
by: Barr, Richard L. (Richard Lewis), 1956-
Published: (1998)

The theater of narration : from the peripheries of history to the main stages of Italy /
by: Guzzetta, Juliet
Published: (2021)