Theater and integrity : emptying selves in drama, ethics, and religion / Larry D. Bouchard
- Author
- Bouchard, Larry D., 1952-
- Published
- Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2011.
- Physical Description
- xvii, 417 pages ; 23 cm
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: pt. I Prelude to Part I -- Patterns of Integrity: Moral Principles, Paradigms, and Ethical Dramas -- ch. I Why Does Antigone Matter to Us? -- ch. II Who Can See Thomas Becket's Integrity? -- ch. III What If Your Integrity Repels Me? -- Death and the King's Horseman in the Theater of Understanding -- pt. II Prelude to Part II -- Dramatis Personae and the Eclipse of Personal Integrity -- ch. IV "Who's There?" -- Hamlet Between Dilemma and Delight -- ch. V "Why Do You Always Wear Black?" -- Truth and Naturalism, Chekhov and Others -- ch. VI "Where the Devil Are My Slippers?" -- The Eclipse of Integrity in Pygmalion, Educating Rita, and Six Degrees of Separation -- pt. III Prelude to Part III -- Integrity and Embodiment -- ch. VII Who Has the Body? -- The Contingency of Integrity in Philoctetes and The Cure at Troy -- ch. VIII What Do You See in My Body? -- Anatomies, Norms, and Desires of Integrity in Venus, The Elephant Man, and Wit -- ch. IX Do We Desire to Escape the Body? -- Anticipating Kenosis in Schechner's Euripides and Zimmerman's Ovid -- pt. IV Prelude to Part IV -- The Empty Forms of Kenotic Integrity -- ch. X Who Is Playing Jesus? -- Traits of Kenotic Integrity in Jesus of Montreal -- ch. XI Who Is Guest, Who Is Host? -- Hospitality and Strangers in Private Lives and The Cocktail Party -- ch. XII Who Will Be My Neighbor? -- Ethical Encounters and Moral Space in Caryl Churchill and Tony Kushner -- ch. XIII Where Will Fragments Be Held? -- King Lear, Kristian Levring, Robert Lepage, and A Midsummer Night's Dream -- Postlude -- On Integrity: Persons and Ensembles.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9780810125629 (cloth : alk. paper)
0810125625 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780810125636 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0810125633 (pbk. : alk. paper) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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