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COMEDY OF VANITY
and
LIFE-TERMS
Elias Canetti
Appearing for the first time in
English, two plays by the winner of
the 1981 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Both plays are dark satires on the
nature of control, mass movements,
and narcissism.
$18.95 (paper); $7.95 (paper)
SICILIAN COMEDIES
Luigi Pirandello
Cap and Bells
and
Man , Beast and
Virtue,
two commedia-style comedies
by Italian dramatist Luigi Pirandello,
written in his Sicilian period, and
never before published in America.
$18.95 (cloth); $6.95 (paper)
EVE OF RETIREMENT
and
THE PRESIDENT
Thomas Bernhard
The first publication in English of two
plays by the Austrian dramatist!
novelist who has been hailed by many
as one of the most provocative writers
since Beckett and Handke.
$16.95 (cloth); $6.95 (paper)
THE END OF HUMANISM
Richard Schechner
A new collection of essays by the
iconoclastic theorist and director, ex–
amining a generation of international
theatrical performance and modes of
performative behavior.
$18.95 (cloth); $6.95 (paper)
THE ENTHUSIASTS
Robert Musil
Thl' EnthllSiasts
is a philosophical
erotic comedy that poses provocative
ideas about sexuality and the ways it
influences human behavior and think–
ing, written by the author of
The Man
Without Qualities
and
Young
Torless.
$15.95 (cloth); $5.95 (paper)
BLOODED THOUGHT
Herbert Blau
A far-ranging, imaginative study of
the nature of theatre, shaped by ideas
evolving in contemporary thinking in
a score of fields besides theatre. One
of the major concerns of this book is
language- its disappearance, its
meaning, its deconstruction in
theatrical space.
$18.95 (cloth); $6.95 (paper)
FROM RITUAL TO THEATRE
Victor Turner
A collection of essays that explores the .
interrelationships of performance,
aesthetics, and ritual , by the noted
anthropologist.
$17.95 (cloth); $6.95 (paper)
LANGUAGES OF THE STAGE
Patrice Pavis
The first book on the semiology of
theatrical performance to be publish–
ed in America, it combines the most
sophisticated thinking in linguistics,
literature, semiotics and information
processing with a remarkable
knowledge of theatrical history.
$19.95 (cloth); $9.95 (paper)
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