ABSTRACT
This collection of essays covers the related areas of aesthetics and politics, both in the field of theatre and in everyday life. Each contributor seeks to illustrate how drama subverts the foundations of the accepted models of perception and how it mediates on its own conventions.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |17 pages
The Cunts, the Knobs and the Corpse: Obscenity and Horror in Howard Barker's Victory (1983)
I wish I could be more offensive I really do. (I.2) Out-fucking-rageous! (Interlude)
chapter |7 pages
Beyond Hope: Howard Brenton's Berlin Bertie
"The new 'democratic' Germany is contaminated before it has even begun." Berlin Bertie, Act III, p.67
chapter |15 pages
Confusion is not an Ignoble Condition
Brian Friel's Unconventional Translations as National and Universal Therapy
chapter |3 pages
A Review of After Brecht: British Epic Theater by Janelle Reinelt
The University of Michigan Press, 1944, 209p, £27.00 ISBN 0-472-10321-0
