Introduction: Theatricality as Medium
1 Theatrocracy; or, Surviving the Break
2 Technics, Theatricality, Installation
3 Scene and Screen: Electronic Media and Theatricality
5 The Place of Death: Oedipus at Colonus
6 Storming the Work: Allegory and Theatricality in Benjamin’s Origin of the German Mourning Play
7 “Ibi et ubique”: The Incontinent Plot (Hamlet)
10 Psychoanalysis and Theatricality
11 “The Virtual Reality of Theater”: Antonin Artaud
12 Double Take: Acting and Writing in Genet’s “The Strange Word Urb”
13 “Being … and eXistenZ”: Some Preliminary Considerations on Theatricality in Film
14 “War,” “Terrorism,” and “Spectacle”: On Towers and Caves
15 Stages and Plots: Theatricality after September 11, 2001
A Discussion with Simon Morgan Wortham and Gary Hall
Appendix: Other Publications by Samuel Weber dealing with Theater