Stages of Terror Terrorism, Ideology, and Coercion as Theatre History [Paperback]

Every now and then a book comes along so startling in its ingenuity, so crisp and invigorating in its perception and argument, so revealing in its investigation of its subject matter, that one is forced to reevaluate, reconsider, and restructure ones understanding and ones perspectives on theatre, discourse, and history. Such a book is Anthony Kubiaks Stages of Terror. Theatre Studies

... quite compelling. It is rich and complete while leaving plenty of room for further development... Text and Performance Quarterly

Using Aristotle's Poetics as its point of departure, Anthony Kubiak traces the forms or stages of terror as a cultural and performative principle through English Renaissance and Restoration plays, through the modern and postmodern, to contemporary terrorist theatres.

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction
A Panegyric on Aristotles Poetics
2. Trial and Terror
Medea Prima Facie
3. Trope to Tragedy
Rubbing out Theatres Corpus
4. Gesturing through the Flames
Commodification, Fetish, and Violence in Restoration Drama
5. The Bodys Revision in the Theatre of Mind
Byrons Manfred and Shelleys Prometheus Unbound
6. Terminal Stages
Moderism and Terror
7. Conclusion
History and the Standard Deviations of Terror

Notes
Bibliography
Index