附註:Interviews with Lehman Engel and others.
Includes bibliographical references.
A history of Iasta's search for style -- American musical comedy: "energy as theatre" -- Peking opera: "the virtuoso actor as theatre" -- Shakespeare: Macbeth: "the universal" -- Kabuki: "theatre as beauty of form" -- Jacobean: Duchess of Malfi: "death and rhetoric as theatre" -- Spanish golden age: "cape and sword theatre" -- Commedia Dell'Arte: "making words music" -- Comedy of manners: "stand-up and talk as theatre" -- The Greek classic: Elektra: "the chorus as theatre" -- Sanskrit: "theatre as a temple" -- The medieval: Mary of Nijmeghen: "religion as theatre" -- Noh: "skill and concentration" -- French neo-classic: Phedre: "the iron corset as theatre" -- Feydeau: "the Swiss watch as theatre" -- German romanticism: Schiller: "storm and stress" -- Brecht: "the familiar made strange" -- Polish: The Wedding: "nationalism as theatre" -- Checkhov: "reality as theatre" -- The future of theatre and the search for style.
