Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Prior Publication xiii
5. Introduction: Theatricality as Medium 1
6. 1. Theatrocracy; or, Surviving the Break 31
7. 2. Technics, Theatricality, Installation 54
8. 3. Scene and Screen: Electronic Media and Theatricality 97
9. 4. Antigone’s Nomos 121
10. 5. The Place of Death: Oedipus at Colonus 141
11. 6. Storming the Work: Allegory and Theatricality in Benjamin’s Origin of the German Mourning Play 160
12. 7. ‘‘Ibi et ubique’’: The Incontinent Plot (Hamlet) 181
13. 8. Kierkegaard’s Posse 200
14. 9. After the End: Adorno 229
15. 10. Psychoanalysis and Theatricality 251
16. 11. ‘‘The Virtual Reality of Theater’’: Antonin Artaud 277
17. 12. Double Take: Acting and Writing in Genet’s ‘‘The Strange Word Urb’’ 295
18. 13. ‘‘Being . . . and eXistenZ’’: Some Preliminary Considerations on Theatricality in Film 313
19. 14. ‘‘War,’’ ‘‘Terrorism,’’ and ‘‘Spectacle’’: On Towers and Caves 326
20. 15. Stages and Plots: Theatricality after September 11, 2001 336
21. Appendix 365
22. Notes 367
23. Index 401