Inter-actions relationships of religion and drama /
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Lanham :
University Press of America,
c2009.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: places of seeing: religion and theater
- Drama and religion: their languages. Drama: where the action is
- Biblical revelation: the mighty acts of God
- Drama and religion: their structures. Ritual: the act re-done
- The play's the thing in drama and religion
- Worship: the drama re-enacted
- Drama and religion: their history. Dionysius: lord of the Greek theater
- Religion and drama in opposition: two instances
- The medieval stage: the inherent drama in the mass
- From liturgy to the plays of the mystery, miracle and morality
- Shakespeare: all the world's a stage
- Modern drama: if the stage is all the world there is
- Contemporary theater (my term): Glimpses of the transcendent
- T. S. Eliot, the Cocktail Party
- Samuel Beckett, Endgame
- Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Gildenstern are Dead
- Peter Shaffer, Equus
- David Mamet, Glengarry Glen Ross
- Tony Kushner, Angels in America
- Mary Zimmerman, Metamorposes
- Coda: Life is a drama!