Against Theatre Creative Destructions on the

Against Theatre shows that the most prominent writers of modern drama shared a radical rejection of the theatre as they knew it. Together with designers, composers and film makers, they plotted to destroy all existing theatres. But from their destruction emerged the most astonishing innovations of modernist theatre.

ALAN ACKERMAN is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Toronto, Canada, author of The Portable Theatre: American Literature and the Nineteenth-Century Stage, and editor of the journal Modern Drama.

MARTIN PUCHNER is the H. Gordon Garbedian Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, USA, and the author of Stage Fright: Modernism, Anti-Theatricality, and Drama (2002) and Poetry of the Revolution: Marx, Manifestos, and the Avant-Gardes (2006). His edited books and introductions include Six Plays by Henrik Ibsen (2003), Lionel Abel's Tragedy and Metatheatre (2003), and The Communist Manifesto and Other Writings (2005). He is co-editor of the forthcoming Norton Anthology of Drama and the editor of Theatre Survey.

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Acknowledgements
Note on the Contributors
Introduction: Modernism and Anti-Theatricality
Frames - Avant-Garde Scenography and the Frames of the Theatre
Clown Shows: Antitheatrical Theatricalism in Four Twentieth Century Plays
Anti-Theatricality in Twentieth-Century Opera
'All the Frame's a Stage': (Anti-)Theatricality and Cinematic Modernism
Materials
Anti-Theatricality and the Limits of Naturalism
Deploying/Destroying the Primitivist Body in Hurston and Brecht
John Cage's Living Theatre
MallarmT, Maeterlinck and the SymbolistVia Negativaof Theatre
Values
Narrative Theatricality: Joseph Conrad's Drama of the Page
The Curse of Legitimacy
Performing Obscene Modernism: Theatrical Censorship and the Making of Modern Drama
Seeming, Seeming: the Illusion of Enough
Index
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Against Theatre Creative Destructions on the Modernist Stage

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