xi, 226 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
Contents
Machine generated contents note: pt. I The discursive act -- 1.Discourses of resistance: representation and the real in the twentieth-century avant-gardes -- 2.Deconstructing the postdramatic: questions of mimesis, authorship and representation -- pt. II Apparitions of the real -- 3.Quoting quotations: citational theory and contemporary characterisation -- 4.Representing the real: verbatim practice in a sceptical age -- 5.Re-membering the real: experiential challenges to the medium of theatrical representation -- 6.From spect-actor to corporate player: reconfigurations of twenty-first-century audiences