1st Edition

To All Appearances Ideology and Performance

By Herbert Blau Copyright 1992
240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1992, To All Appearances is a book in which ideology and performance shadow each other, in a theoretical inquiry which ranges widely across historical periods and cultures. The author’s concerns—which include the social meaning of illusion and the cultural manifestation of power—take the reader from Jacobean drama to the pageantry of Robert Wilson; from Eleanora Duse to... Read more

Foreword  1. Statutes of limitations  2. The theatrical fact  3. The surpassing body  4. Distressed emotion  5. The struggle to appear 

Biography

Herbert Blau was the most influential theater theorist, practitioner, and educator of his generation. He was Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. After many years in the theater, where he was particularly well known for his innovative work as a director, he also gained an international reputation for his theoretical writings on performance and postmodern culture.

Review of the first publication:

‘…To All Appearances raises a number of important questions, for both theatrical practice and cultural theory.’

— Julie Adam, Border/Lines