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Agitated states : performance in the American theater of cruelty

Print Book, English, ©2002
University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, ©2002
xii, 239 pages ; 24 cm.
9780472098118, 9780472068111, 047209811X, 0472068113
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Introduction/second manifesto: the American theater of cruelty
Puritanism and the early American theaters of cruelty
The resistance to theater in the conquest of America
Ripping good time: history, blindsight, and amnesic thought
Excursis: the thought of an American theater
What child is this? O'Neill, Albee, Shepard, and the body of the repressed
Splitting the difference: performance and its double in American culture
Nothing doing
Epilogue