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No Flowers: Performative Interventions “at the Moment of” Margaret Thatcher’s Passing
- TDR: The Drama Review
- The MIT Press
- Volume 59, Number 2, Summer 2015 (T226)
- pp. 103-113
- Article
- Additional Information
Abstract
Why is “respect” the order of the day for the dead, such as Margaret Thatcher, upon their dying? Was Walter Benjamin right when he pointed to death and its trimmings as that which lends authority to the storyteller? And how might performance short circuit narratives so motored?
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