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Staging the impossible : the fantastic mode in modern drama

Author: Patrick D Murphy
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1992.
Series: Contributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy, no. 54.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Staging the impossible.
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1992
(OCoLC)643867603
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Patrick D Murphy
ISBN: 0313272700 9780313272707
OCLC Number: 25629277
Description: viii, 245 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: When formula seizes form : Oscar Wilde's comedies / Susan Taylor Jacobs --
A task most difficult : staging Yeats's mystical dramas at the Abbey / Frederick S. Lapisardi --
The perilous edge : Strindberg, madness, and other worlds / Peter Malekin --
Wassily Kandinsky's stage composition Yellow sound : the fantastic and the symbolic mode of communication / Kent W. Hooper --
Ionesco and L'insolite / Elizabeth C. Hesson and Ian M. Hesson --
Ambiguity and the supernatural in Cocteau's La machine infernale / Ralph Yarrow --
Beckett and the horrific / Lance Olsen --
Multiplicities of illusion in Tom Stoppard's plays / Peter N. Chetta --
Leivick's The golem and the golem legend / Carl Schaffer --
Dream on Monkey Mountain : fantasy as self-perception / Robert J. Willis --
Spalding Gray's Swimming to Cambodia : a performance gesture / Jessica Prinz. The shock of the actual : disrupting the theatrical illusion / Theodore Shank --
Playing at the end of the world : postmodern theater / Veronica Hollinger --
"Infinity in a cigar box" : the problem of science fiction on the stage / Joseph Krupnik.
Series Title: Contributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy, no. 54.
Responsibility: edited by Patrick D. Murphy.

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