Shepherd-Barr Theatre and Evolution from Ibsen to Beckett

1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-231-53892-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reveals the deep, transformative entanglement among science, art, and culture in modern times

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shepherd-Barr, Kirsten

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatergeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. "I'm Evolving!": Birds, Beasts, and Parodies
2. Confronting the Serious Side
3. "On the Contrary!": Ibsen's Evolutionary Vision
4. "Ugly. but Irresistible": Maternal Instinct on Stage
5. Edwardians and Eugenicists
6. Reproductive Issues
7. Midcentury American Engagements with Evolution
8. Beckett's "Old Muckball"
Epilogue: Staging the Anthropocene
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr is Professor of English and Theatre Studies at the University of Oxford and is a fellow of St Catherine's College, Oxford. She has also taught at the University of Birmingham, North Carolina State University, and the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Ibsen and Early Modernist Theatre, 1890–1900, and her book Science on Stage: From "Doctor Faustus" to "Copenhagen" helped establish the field of theatre and science. She has published widely in journals, including Theatre Research International, Modernist Cultures, Nineteenth Century Theatre, Ibsen Studies, Nature, Women: A Cultural Review, American Scientist, and Interdisciplinary Science Reviews.