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251 index Abel, Lionel Metatheatre: A New View of Dramatic Form, 141 Abramovich, Marina, 65, 75, 83, 110 “The Artist is Present,” 213 Abu Ghraib, 208, 209, 210, 213 Actual Lives, 79, 80, 86, 88, 89, 90 Adams, Timothy Dow, 33, 104, 226n80 Telling Lies in Modern American Autobiography , 217n8 Aeschylus The Persians, 199 American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR), 201, 213 “Contemporary Women Playwrights ,” 207 Anderson, Laurie Stories from the Nerve Bible, 43 Anderson, Linda, 128 Anthony, Susan B., 117, 118 Antin, Eleanor, 27, 65 Carving: An Intentional Sculpture, 34, 35 antitheatrical prejudice, 4, 5 Anzaldua, Gloria Borderlands/LaFrontera: The New Mestiza, 215n2 Arena Stage, 91 Artaud, 96, 173 Aston, Elaine, 125, 126–27, 140, 178 Feminist Views on the English Stage: Women Playwrights, 17–18 Herstory, 135 An Introduction to Feminism and Theatre, 17, 215n2 audiences, 7, 9, 14, 15, 18–19, 50, 70, 72, 112, 129, 131, 135, 136, 137–39, 144, 146, 147, 148, 150, 151, 172, 173, 220n4 agreement, 11 autobiographical subjects, 69 community, 53–54 feminist, 52, 119, 124, 125 gay, 52 life writing, 12–13, 20, 22, 23, 33 power, 145 truth, 122, 230n11 See also subheading: audiences under specific individual authors and works, e.g., De Angelis, April: Playhouse Creatures: audiences Augsburg, Tanya, 36, 37 Austin, J. L., 10–11, 12 How to Do Things with Words, 6, 7 unhappy performative, 7, 10, 11, 124 Austin, TX, 51, 79, 86 autobiographical readings avoidance, 93–98 Baartman, Saartjie, 176, 185–87, 189, 190–91, 192–93, 196, 198, 199, 237n39, 237n48 See also Venus Hottentott Baird, Zoë, 201 Baker, Bobby, 22, 31, 53, 54, 72, 77, 203, 213, 222n51 Drawing on a Mother’s Experience, 42–43, 70 Kitchen Show: One Dozen Kitchen Actions Made Public, 44–47, 48, 52, 69, 70, 220n4 audience, 45 Bardach, Emilie Hedda Gabler, 164, 167, 168–69, 170–71 Barry, Elizabeth, 154, 156–57, 234n35 Barthes, Roland, 216 “The Death of the Author,” 93, 105, 113, 123 Basel, Switzerland, 120 Bassnet-McGuire, Susan E., 17, 158 Basting, Anne Davis, 187 Bechtel, Roger, 194, 197 Beckett, Samuel, 219n39 Behn, Aphra, 162 Bell, Florence, 163 Bell, Susan Groag, 124 Revealing Lives: Autobiography, Biography , and Gender, 231n25 Benjamin, Walter, 19, 126 Bennett, Susan, 10, 19, 21, 83, 84 “3D A/B,” 71, 78, 79 Berlatsky, Eric, 121–22 Betterton, Mary, 130, 155, 158, 160, 162 Betterton, Thomas, 130, 234n38 Billington, Michael, 92–93 biographical subjects, 19, 22, 23, 118, 119, 121, 123, 124, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 136, 139, 151, 153, 158, 160, 162, 164, 178, 180, 186, 188, 197, 198, 204, 231n28 female, 149 body abjected, 79, 193 art, 37, 38, 199 black, 174, 192, 196 black female, 191, 196, 197 corporeal, 6, 14, 19, 34, 36, 42, 44, 56, 72, 85, 88, 105, 189 cross-dressed, 126, 178 deconstructed, 38 disability, 55, 79–80, 83 female, 9, 20, 31, 32, 33, 34, 36, 38, 42, 47, 52, 55, 56, 57, 60, 61, 62, 63, 65, 72, 74, 76, 79, 84, 133, 192, 197, 202, 213 gendered, 42, 46, 55, 185 historical, 21, 23, 55, 71, 189, 190, 191, 193, 197, 201, 202, 203, 204, 205, 206, 213 hysterical, 150, 152 identity, 19, 22, 27, 55, 202, 204 male, 79, 83, 84 misfit, 127 objectified, 3, 13, 20, 27, 32–38, 42, 44, 45, 46, 47, 160, 195 past, 190 personal in public performance, 57–64, 68, 74–78 and race, 174, 175, 185–93, 196, 197 as spectacle, 160, 192 stylized, 174, 193 Venus, 186, 187, 188, 189, 190, 193, 195, 197, 198, 199 and voice, 14, 19, 53, 160, 171 woman’s, 32, 33, 34, 46, 57, 60, 62, 75, 83, 84, 90, 131, 205 Booth, Wayne C., 100, 101 The Rhetoric of Fiction, 99 Bornstein, Kate, 22, 31, 43, 47, 49, 53, 54, 65, 70, 72 The Opposite Sex Is Neither, 9, 13, 18, 37 audiences, 36 Virtually Yours, 41–42 audiences, 41, 51 Bosch, Hieronymus, 96 Brecht, Bertolt, 10, 30, 34, 130, 132, 133, 151, 175, 176, 179, 182, 197 The Good Person of Szechuan, 7 Brechtian Theatre, 30 Brittain, Vera Guantánamo: ‘Honor Bound to Defend Freedom,’ 207 Broadway, 1, 77, 210, 215n2, 220n3 Brodzki, Bella, 57 Brooks, Daphne A., 175–76, 186, 191 Broughton, Trev Lynn, 128 Brown, Erella, 150 Brown, Janet, 17 Feminist Drama: Definition and Critical Analysis, 215n2 Brownley, Martine Watson Women and Autobiography, 3, 33, 217n7 Brustein, Robert, 188 252 : index [18.218.254.122] Project MUSE...

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