Staging the End of the World: Theatre in a Time of Climate Crisis

ISBN-13: 9781350309913 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 288 str.

USA) Kulick Brian (Columbia University

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Acknowledgements Introduction: On Transforming Our Social Imaginary PART ONE: THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS IN ANCIENT TIMES 1. Lessons Amongst the Ruins; Or, What Survives and Why: How the Cultural Detritus of the Ancients Can Become a Kind of First Philosophy 2. Slouching Toward Kurukshetra: A Brief Look at the Mahabharatas of Bhasa, Bharati, and Brook 3. Diasporas Old and New: What Euripides' Children of Herakles Can Tell Us About the Coming Climate Wars and Resulting Refugee Crisis PART TWO: THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS IN THE AGE OF FAITH 4. Noahs, Arks, and Floods: Why Medieval Mystery Plays Still Have Something to Say About Our Modern Day “End of Days” 5. Shipwrecks, Recursion, and the Necessity of Deep Ecology: Surviving Shakespeare’s The Tempest and the Breaking of Our Anthropocene Ways 6. On Earthquakes and Metaphors: Bouilly’s Disaster of Lisbon and the Fukushima Variation PART THREE: THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS IN MODERN TIMES 7. Plague’s Threat to Our Immune and Belief Systems: A Look at Pushkin’s A Feast in the Time of Plague 8. A Canary in the Bourgeois Coal Mine, Part One: Pollution and Direct Critique in Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People 9. A Canary in the Bourgeois Coal Mine, Part Two: Denial and Indirect Critique in Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard PART FOUR: THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS NOW 10. Ethics During Dark Times: Brecht’s He Who Says Yes and He Who Says No 11. On the Other Side of the Apocalypse: The Broken Worlds of Beckett and Bond 12. Nostalgia for the Future: The Fraught Tomorrows of Rivera, Churchill, Washburn, and Kushner Coda: And in the End Notes Index