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The Maids and Deathwatch

Author : Jean Genet
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0802194303
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book The Maids and Deathwatch written by Jean Genet and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 1994-02-16 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two plays collected in this volume represent Genet’s first attempts to analyze the mores of a bourgeois society he had previously been content simply to vilify. In The Maids, two domestic workers, deeply resentful of their inferior social position, try to revenge themselves against society by destroying their employer. When their attempt to betray their mistress’s lover to the police fails and they are in danger of being found out, they dream of murdering Madame, little aware of the true power behind their darkest fantasy. In Deathwatch, two convicts try to impress a third, who is on the verge of achieving legendary status in criminal circles. But neither realizes the lengths to which they will go to gain respect or that, in the end, nothing they can do—including murder—will get them what they are searching for.

The Maids and Deathwatch Two Plays by Jean Genet

Author : Jean Genet
Publisher : Paw Prints
ISBN 13 : 9781439513774
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book The Maids and Deathwatch Two Plays by Jean Genet written by Jean Genet and published by Paw Prints. This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Maids

Author :
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0977721280
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (777 download)

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Download or read book The Maids written by and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2003 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Performed by: Cast: Glenda Jackson, Susannah York, Vivien Merchant, Mark Burns.Summary: Two sisters, Solange and Claire, serve as maids to a despised mistress. Whenever the mistress leaves, the sisters act out an increasingly bizarre psychodrama of domination and control that feeds their lust for revenge.Note: Originally produced as a motion picture in 1974.Based on the play: Bonnes / by Jean Genet. English translation by Minos Volanakis.Special features include: theatrical trailer; Jean Genet and The maids', an essay by Michael Feingold; an interview with Edie Landau.

The Maids

Author : Jean Genet
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (827 download)

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Download or read book The Maids written by Jean Genet and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Theatre of Death – The Uncanny in Mimesis

Author : Mischa Twitchin
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137478721
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book The Theatre of Death – The Uncanny in Mimesis written by Mischa Twitchin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-10-20 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is concerned with such questions as the following: What is the life of the past in the present? How might “the theatre of death” and “the uncanny in mimesis” allow us to conceive of the afterlife of a supposedly ephemeral art practice? How might a theatrical iconology engage with such fundamental social relations as those between the living and the dead? Distinct from the dominant expectation that actors should appear life-like onstage, why is it that some theatre artists – from Craig to Castellucci – have conceived of the actor in the image of the dead? Furthermore, how might an iconology of the actor allow us to imagine the afterlife of an apparently ephemeral art practice? This book explores such questions through the implications of the twofold analogy proposed in its very title: as theatre is to the uncanny, so death is to mimesis; and as theatre is to mimesis, so death is to the uncanny. Walter Benjamin once observed that: “The point at issue in the theatre today can be more accurately defined in relation to the stage than to the play. It concerns the filling-in of the orchestra pit. The abyss which separates the actors from the audience like the dead from the living...” If the relation between the living and the dead can be thought of in terms of an analogy with ancient theatre, how might avant-garde theatre be thought of in terms of this same relation “today”?

Plays 1

Author : Jean Genet
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780413773890
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (738 download)

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Download or read book Plays 1 written by Jean Genet and published by . This book was released on 2004-04 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Jean Genet

Author : David Bradby
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134188269
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book Jean Genet written by David Bradby and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the only introductory text to Genet in English, offering an overview of this key figure in defining and understanding twentieth-century theatre. The authors provide a comprehensive account of Genet's key plays and productions, his early life and his writing for and beyond the theatre.

Our Lady of the Flowers

Author : Jean Genet
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802194249
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Our Lady of the Flowers written by Jean Genet and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 1994-01-12 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The shattering novel of underground life the New York Times called “a cry of rapture and horror . . . the purest lyrical genius.” Jean Genet’s debut novel Our Lady of the Flowers, which is often considered to be his masterpiece, was written entirely in the solitude of a prison cell. A semi- autobiographical account of one man’s journey through the Paris demi-monde, dubbed “the epic of masturbation” by no less a figure than Jean-Paul Sartre, the novel’s exceptional value lies in its exquisite ambiguity.

Deathwatch

Author : Jean Genet
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780571251513
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Deathwatch written by Jean Genet and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Deathwatch," Jean Genet's earliest, shortest and most formally straightforward play, was first performed in Paris in 1949. It retains an intense power and makes an excellent introduction to his later dramas - "The Maids," "The Balcony," "The Blacks," "The Screens." The French text of "Deathwatch," published by Gallimard, was extensively altered by Genet during rehearsal; and Bernard Frechtman's translation is of the final 'performance' version, which supersedes the original published text. Three convicts share a cramped prison cell. There is no question as to which of them is the dominant dog in the pack: Green Eyes (Yeux-Verts) has brutally murdered a woman and is to be executed. Lefranc and the younger novice-like Maurice are inside for less grave crimes. But both of them covet Green Eyes' attention, baiting each other in the process, a duel that drives inexorably toward violence.

The Screens

Author : Jean Genet
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802151582
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book The Screens written by Jean Genet and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 1994-01-20 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean Genet was one of the world's greatest contemporary dramatists, and his last play, The Screens, is his crowning achievement. It strikes a powerful, closing chord to the formidable theatrical work that began with Deathwatch and continued, with even bolder variations, in The Maids, The Balcony, and The Blacks. Explicitly political, The Screens is set within the context of the Algerian War. The play's cast of over fifty characters moves through seventeen scenes, the world of the living breaching the world of the dead by means of shifting the screens--the only scenery--in a brilliant tour de force of spectacle and drama.

Metafictional Characters in Modern Drama

Author : June Schlueter
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231047524
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book Metafictional Characters in Modern Drama written by June Schlueter and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Prisoner of Love

Author : Jean Genet
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681378418
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book Prisoner of Love written by Jean Genet and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starting in 1970, Jean Genet—petty thief, prostitute, modernist master—spent two years in the Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan. Always an outcast himself, Genet was drawn to this displaced people, an attraction that was to prove as complicated for him as it was enduring. Prisoner of Love, written some ten years later, when many of the men Genet had known had been killed, and he himself was dying, is a beautifully observed description of that time and those men as well as a reaffirmation of the author's commitment not only to the Palestinian revolution but to rebellion itself. For Genet's most overtly political book is also his most personal—the last step in the unrepentantly sacrilegious pilgrimage first recorded in The Thief's Journal, and a searching meditation, packed with visions, ruses, and contradictions, on such life-and-death issues as the politics of the image and the seductive and treacherous character of identity. Genet's final masterpiece is a lyrical and philosophical voyage to the bloody intersection of oppression, terror, and desire at the heart of the contemporary world.

Deathwatch

Author : Jean Genet
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Deathwatch written by Jean Genet and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Private Readings/public Texts

Author : Kenneth Krauss
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838634967
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book Private Readings/public Texts written by Kenneth Krauss and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, Kenneth Krauss maintains that if readers are to comprehend playscripts as plays, they must imagine the theatre audience - so vital to the staging of any script, but conspicuously absent from the text itself. Krauss examines what has been written about reading playscripts (or "playreading") and proposes four possible ways, founded on a reception-oriented approach to theatre communication and spectator response, that playreaders may construct a sense of theatre audiences.

A Cultural History of Causality

Author : Stephen Kern
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400826233
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book A Cultural History of Causality written by Stephen Kern and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-10 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pioneering work is the first to trace how our understanding of the causes of human behavior has changed radically over the course of European and American cultural history since 1830. Focusing on the act of murder, as documented vividly by more than a hundred novels including Crime and Punishment, An American Tragedy, The Trial, and Lolita, Stephen Kern devotes each chapter of A Cultural History of Causality to examining a specific causal factor or motive for murder--ancestry, childhood, language, sexuality, emotion, mind, society, and ideology. In addition to drawing on particular novels, each chapter considers the sciences (genetics, endocrinology, physiology, neuroscience) and systems of thought (psychoanalysis, linguistics, sociology, forensic psychiatry, and existential philosophy) most germane to each causal factor or motive. Kern identifies five shifts in thinking about causality, shifts toward increasing specificity, multiplicity, complexity, probability, and uncertainty. He argues that the more researchers learned about the causes of human behavior, the more they realized how much more there was to know and how little they knew about what they thought they knew. The book closes by considering the revolutionary impact of quantum theory, which, though it influenced novelists only marginally, shattered the model of causal understanding that had dominated Western thought since the seventeenth century. Others have addressed changing ideas about causality in specific areas, but no one has tackled a broad cultural history of this concept as does Stephen Kern in this engagingly written and lucidly argued book.

Funeral Rites

Author : Jean Genet
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802130877
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Funeral Rites written by Jean Genet and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 1969 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fictionalized account of the author's lover, Jean Decarin, who was killed in the Resistance during the liberation of Paris in World War II.

Sovereignty, Inc.

Author : William Mazzarella
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022666855X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book Sovereignty, Inc. written by William Mazzarella and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-12-16 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does the name Trump stand for? If branding now rules over the production of value, as the coauthors of Sovereignty, Inc. argue, then Trump assumes the status of a master brand whose primary activity is the compulsive work of self-branding—such is the new sovereignty business in which, whether one belongs to his base or not, we are all “incorporated.” Drawing on anthropology, political theory, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and theater, William Mazzarella, Eric L. Santner, and Aaron Schuster show how politics in the age of Trump functions by mobilizing a contradictory and convoluted enjoyment, an explosive mixture of drives and fantasies that eludes existing portraits of our era. The current political moment turns out to be not so much exceptional as exceptionally revealing of the constitutive tension between enjoyment and economy that has always been a key component of the social order. Santner analyzes the collective dream-work that sustains a new sort of authoritarian charisma or mana, a mana-facturing process that keeps us riveted to an excessively carnal incorporation of sovereignty. Mazzarella examines the contemporary merger of consumer brand and political brand and the cross-contamination of politics and economics, warning against all too easy laments about the corruption of politics by marketing. Schuster, focusing on the extreme theatricality and self-satirical comedy of the present, shows how authority reasserts itself at the very moment of distrust and disillusionment in the system, profiting off its supposed decline. A dazzling diagnostic of our present, Sovereignty, Inc., forces us to come to terms with our complicity in Trump’s political presence and will immediately take its place in discussions of contemporary politics.