Sound binding and hinges. Clean, bright pages. Still in publisher's shrink wrap. Contents: Styan, The mystery of the play experience: Quince's questions. Whiteside, Self-referring artifacts. Elam, Much ado about doing things with words (and other means): some problems in the pragmatics of theatre and drama. Issacharoff, Stage codes. Alter, Decoding Mnouchkine's Shakespeare (a grammar of stage signs). Pavis, From text to performance. Jones, A medieval prescription for performance (Le Jeu d'Adam). Schechner, Performance orientations in ritual theatre. Issacharoff, Postscript or pinch of salt: performance as mediation or deconstruction. Bibliography, contributors, index. ; 9.25" tall; 160 pages.

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Performing Texts

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University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia

Publication Date

1988

Language

English

ISBN 10

0812280733

ISBN 13

9780812280739

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Hardcover

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Fine in Fine dust jacket

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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

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