Performing Texts
Hardcover, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988. Fine in Fine dust jacket.
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.
ISBN: 0812280733 Item #4540030
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