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Dark Matter: Invisibility in Drama, Theater, and Performance

Andrew Sofer 2013
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Dark Matter maps the invisible dimension of theater whose effects are felt everywhere in performance. Examining phenomena such as hallucination, offstage character, offstage action, sexuality, masking, technology, and trauma, Andrew Sofer engagingly illuminates the invisible in different periods of postclassical western theater and drama. He reveals how the invisible continually structures and focuses an audience's theatrical experience, whether it's black magic in Doctor Faustus, offstage sex in A Midsummer Night's Dream, masked women in The Rover, self-consuming bodies in Suddenly Last Summer, or surveillance technology in The Archbishop's Ceiling. Each discussion pinpoints new and striking facets of drama and performance that escape sight. Taken together, Sofer's lively case studies illuminate how dark matter is woven into the very fabric of theatrical representation. Written in an accessible style and grounded in theater studies but interdisciplinary by design, Dark Matter will appeal to theater and performance scholars, literary critics, students, and theater practitioners, particularly playwrights and directors.
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Series
  • Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
ISBN(s)
  • 978-0-472-05204-2 (paper)
  • 978-0-472-07204-0 (hardcover)
  • 978-0-472-02968-6 (ebook)
Subject
  • Theater and Performance
  • Literary Studies:Literary Criticism and Theory
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  • Table of Contents

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  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Dark Matter: An Introduction
  • 1 How to Do Things with Demons: Conjuring Performatives in Doctor Faustus
  • 2 Quantum Mechanicals: Desiring Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream
  • 3 Unmasking Women: The Rover and Sexual Signification on the Restoration Stage
  • 4 Unbecoming Acts: Power, Performance, and the Self-Consuming Body in Tennessee Williams's Suddenly Last Summer
  • 5 Bugs in the Mind: The Archbishop's Ceiling and Arthur Miller's Prismatic Drama
  • 6 Invisible Wounds: Rehearsing Trauma on the Contemporary Stage
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • Index
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