Captive audience : prison and captivity in contemporary theater /
This all-new collection examines the social, gendered, ethnic, and cultural problems of incarceration as explored in contemporary theatre
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
2003
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| Series: | Studies in modern drama ;
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Table of Contents:
- Captive audience: an introduction / Thomas Fahy
- PART I
- Confessional voice: Medea's brutal imagination / Rena Fraden
- Emotional contraband: prison as metaphor and meaning in U.S. Latina drama / Tiffany Ana Lopez
- Seeing ethnicity: the impact of race and class on the critical reception of Miguel Piñero's Short eyes / Fiona Mills
- PART II
- On prisons in the United States: extract from a speech delivered to the confederation of analytical psychologists, London, 25 June 1999 / Harold Pinter
- Harold Pinter's prison house: the screenplay of Kafka's The trial / Ann C. Hall
- Harold Pinter's The handmaid's tale: freedom, prison, and a hijacked script / Christopher C. Hudgins
- "World of bodies": performing flesh in Marat/Sade / Pamela Cooper
- Disposal: William Inge's abject drama / Robert F. Gross
- "In dark corners": masculinity and art in Tennessee Williams's Not about nightingales / Thomas Fahy
- Physical prisons: Naomi Wallace's drama of captivity / Claudia Barnett
- No exit and Waiting for Godot: performances in contrast / Lois Gordon
- Captive audience: an introduction / Thomas Fahy
- PART I
- Confessional voice: Medea's brutal imagination / Rena Fraden
- Emotional contraband: prison as metaphor and meaning in U.S. Latina drama / Tiffany Ana Lopez
- Seeing ethnicity: the impact of race and class on the critical reception of Miguel Piñero's Short eyes / Fiona Mills
- PART II
- On prisons in the United States: extract from a speech delivered to the confederation of analytical psychologists, London, 25 June 1999 / Harold Pinter
- Harold Pinter's prison house: the screenplay of Kafka's The trial / Ann C. Hall
- Harold Pinter's The handmaid's tale: freedom, prison, and a hijacked script / Christopher C. Hudgins
- "World of bodies": performing flesh in Marat/Sade / Pamela Cooper
- Disposal: William Inge's abject drama / Robert F. Gross
- "In dark corners": masculinity and art in Tennessee Williams's Not about nightingales / Thomas Fahy
- Physical prisons: Naomi Wallace's drama of captivity / Claudia Barnett
- No exit and Waiting for Godot: performances in contrast / Lois Gordon