Against Theatre

1. Introduction: Modernism and anti-theatricality
Alan Ackerman, Martin Puchner

2. Avant-garde scenography and the frames of the theatre
Arnold Aronson

3. Clown shows: Anti-theatricalist theatricalism in four twentieth-century plays
Elinor Fuchs

4. Anti-theatricality in twentieth-century opera
Herbert Lindenberger

5. ‘All the Frame’s a Stage’: (Anti-)theatricality and cinematic modernism
Charlie Keil

Part II. Materials

6. Anti-theatricality and the limits of naturalism
Kirk Williams

7. Deploying/destroying the primitivist body in hurston and brecht
Elin Diamond

8. John Cage’s living theatre
Marjorie Perloff

9. Mallarmé, Maeterlinck and the symbolist via negativa of theatre
Patrick McGuinness

10. Narrative theatricality: Joseph Conrad’s drama of the page
Rebecca L. Walkowitz

Part III. Values

11. The curse of legitimacy
David Savran

12. Performing obscene modernism: Theatrical censorship and the making of modern drama
Julie Stone Peters

13. Seeming, seeming: The illusion of enough
Herbert Blau

Keywords: Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Theatre History, Cultural Studies, Theatre and Performance Studies, Performing Arts