Contents

Preface

Prior Publication

Introduction: Theatricality as Medium

    1    Theatrocracy; or, Surviving the Break

    2    Technics, Theatricality, Installation

    3    Scene and Screen: Electronic Media and Theatricality

    4    Antigone’s Nomos

    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)

    8    Kierkegaard’s Posse

    9    After the End: Adorno

    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

     Notes

     Index