Anthony Kubiak Agitated States: Performance in the American Theater of Cruelty Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002. 239 p. £39.00 (hbk), £18.00 (pbk). ISBN: 0-472-09811-x (hbk), 0-472-06811-3 (pbk)

McManus provides detailed discussions of the effect of the juxtaposition of elite female masquers and professional male actors, and the intersection between staging, costume, and the performing female body; her emphasis on the central importance of dance to the genre is particularly welcome. [...]Sh...

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Published inNew Theatre Quarterly Vol. 20; no. 78; p. 197
Main Author MACPHERSON, HEIDI SLETTEDAHL
Format Book Review
LanguageEnglish
Published Cambridge Cambridge University Press 01.05.2004
Subjects
Actors
Cultural identity
Culture
Drama
Dramatists
English language
Essays
Face (Body)
Greek language
Jonson, Ben (1573-1637)
Language attitudes
Language culture relationship
Language history
Negotiation
Reading
Television programs
Theater
United States > US
Denmark
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Summary:McManus provides detailed discussions of the effect of the juxtaposition of elite female masquers and professional male actors, and the intersection between staging, costume, and the performing female body; her emphasis on the central importance of dance to the genre is particularly welcome. [...]Shakespeare and his company took pains to prepare texts that they knew would be read with care, interest, and precision. Chapters on Erasmus and the conict surrounding the promulgation of the Greek language, the notion of being Greek as negotiated in the works of Lucian, early and late nineteenth-century appropriations of the Greek in English culture, education, and society, and the changing attitudes to the value and importance of Plutarch in recent history complete this study of some exemplary critical moments when cultural identity has become inextricably linked with an idea of Greek and Greek becomes a bitterly contested area of social and intellectual activity.l. du s. read doi: 10.1017/s0266464x0424009xKatherine Bliss Eaton, ed. First published in 2001, In-Yer-Face Theatre is a pithy encapsulation and bold analysis of a new aesthetic of theatre trends which erupted in 1990s Britain, a decade wherein, in Sierzs words, Never before had so many plays been so blatant, so aggressive or emotionally dark.
ISSN:0266-464X
1474-0613