Name: Theater of Essence
Author: Esslin, Martin
ISBN: 9780810106642


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BUY FROM PUBLISHER	Theater of Essence by Jan Kott introduction by Martin Esslin Northwestern University Press, 1984 Paper: 978-0-8101-0665-9 \| Cloth: 978-0-8101-0664-2 Library of Congress Classification PN2021.K68 1984 Dewey Decimal Classification 792 ABOUT THIS BOOK \| AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY \| TOC \| REQUEST ACCESSIBLE FILE ABOUT THIS BOOK The sixteen essays collected in The Theater of Essence define the point of view of one of the most influential theater critics of our time. Jan Kott's subjects extend from Tadeusz Borowski, Ibsen, Ionesco, and Gogol to Bunraku theater in Japan, Yiddish theater in New York, and Grotowski's theater in Poland. AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY Jan Kott was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1914. In 1964, he co-signed "The Letter of the Thirty-Four" protesting Polish censorship, and in 1969 he was official dismissed from the University of Warsaw where he was Professor of Polish Literature. Leaving Poland, he came to the United States and has taught at the State University of New York at Stony Brook from 1969 to the present. TABLE OF CONTENTS Contents Introduction Esslin, Martin Shakespeare's Riddle The Author of Comedy, or The Inspector General Ibsen Read Anew Witkiewicz, or The Dialectic of Anachronism On Gombrowicz lonesco, or A Pregnant Death Noh, or About Signs Bunraku and Kabuki, or About Imitation The Icon of the Absurd Why Should I Take Part in the Sacred Dance? After Grotowski: The End of the Impossible Theater The Theater of Essence: Kantor and Brook Tadeusz Borowski: A European Education A Cage in Search of a Bird The Serpent's Sting The Seriousness of Theater REQUEST ACCESSIBLE FILE If you are a student who has a disability that prevents you from using this book in printed form, BiblioVault may be able to supply you with an electronic file for alternative access. Please have the disability coordinator at your school fill out this form. It can take 2-3 weeks for requests to be filled. See other books on: Drama \| Essence \| Kott, Jan \| Performing Arts \| Theater See other titles from Northwestern University Press

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