The Final Curtain: The Art of Dying on Stage

By:

Laurence Senelick

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Hardback

Series:

Anthem Studies in Theatre and Performance

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It is a book about dying, or, more accurately, about the representation of dying in the theatre. Its chief concern is how actors undertook to translate words and concepts into forms legible and significant to an audience. It deals with the ways in which playwrights wrote about death and attitudes towards death in their cultures. Nevertheless, the emphasis is on the practice of acting. This “death spectacle” runs the gamut. From the Greek tragic stage which was highly selective in determining which deaths it (re)enacted to the elaborately stylized murders and suicides in the Kabuki to the lavish blood-letting of the Elizabethans to the deathbed visitations of the modern era, what was acceptable and/or enjoyable fluctuates wildly.

Author Biography:

Laurence Senelick is Fletcher Professor Emeritus of Drama and Oratory at Tufts University and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His many books include The Changing Room: Sex, Drag and Theatre; The American Stage (Library of America); and Jacques Offenbach and the Making of Modern Culture.

Release date Australia

May 17th, 2022

Author

Laurence Senelick

Series

Anthem Studies in Theatre and Performance

Pages

206

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Dimensions

153x229x26

ISBN-13

9781839983924

Product ID

35327228

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