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The Drama of the Double, 1st ed. 2016
Permeable Boundaries
What is Theatre? Series
Author: Burkman Katherine H.
Language: EnglishKeywords
doubling; greek myths; oedipus; narcissus; dionysus; orestes; demeter; object-relations theory; modern drama; beckett; mamet; shepard; narcissism; taxi driver; hedda gabler; drama; film; fragment; Greek myths
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Preface
Prelude: The Stories, by Jeredith Merrin
Acknowledgments
1. The Drama of the Double
2. Narcissus and Doubling: Conrad, Shepard, Mamet
3. Narcissus and Dionysus: The Bacchae and The Crying Game
4. Harold Pinter's Death in Venice and Life in Victoria Station
5. Hedda Gabler, Jules and Jim and Taxi Driver
6. Orestes: Aeschylus and O'Neill
7. Doubling in the Mythic Dreamscapes of Samuel Beckett's Happy Days, Not I, and Rockaby
8. More on Demeter: Marsha Norman's 'night Mother
9. Oedipus and Demeter: Pinter's A Slight Ache
Coda
Index
Katherine H. Burkman is Professor Emerita in the Department of English at The Ohio State University, USA. She has published eleven books and numerous articles on modern drama, and has also published various plays, poems, and short stories. She founded and served as Artistic Director of Women at Play for twelve years, is presently a member of Wild Women Writing, and continues to act and direct.