Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Figures ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction. The Theater as a Loaded Gun 1
6. Part I. The Ruins of Rome
7. 1. The Theater as Persecution 23
8. 2. Tyrannical Drama 47
9. Part II. The Fall of the Unified Church
10. 3. The Theater as Infection 81
11. 4, Stigmatical Drama 105
12. Part III. The Apocalypse to Come
13. 5. The Theater as Conflagration 139
14. 6. Sodomitical Drama 165
15. Afterword. On the Uncertainty of What Comes After 195
16. Bibliography 201
17. Index 229