I. The Invention of Theatricality -- 1. Richard Wagner: The Theatocracy of the Mime -- II. The Modernist Closet Drama -- 2. Stephane Mallarme: The Theater in the Closet -- 3. James Joyce: Novel and Drama in Ulysses -- 4. Gertrude Stein: Four Saints in Three Acts - A Closet Drama to Be Performed -- III. The Diegetic Theater -- 5. William Butler Yeats: Poetic Voices in Theatrical Space -- 6. Bertolt Brecht: The Theater on a Leash -- 7. Samuel Beckett: Actors in Barrels and Gestures in the Text
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-228) and index