Stages of Terror

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Every now and then a book comes along so startling in itsingenuity, so crisp and invigorating in its perception and argument, so revealing inits investigation of its subject matter, that one is forced to reevaluate, reconsider, and restructure one's understanding and one's perspectives on theatre, discourse, and history. Such a book is Anthony Kubiak's Stages of Terror." --Theatre Studies ..". quite compelling. It is rich andcomplete while leaving plenty of room for further development... " -- Text andPerformance Quarterly Using Aristotle's Poetics as its point ofdeparture, Anthony Kubiak traces the forms or "stages" of terror as a cultural andperformative principle through English Renaissance and Restoration plays, throughthe modern and postmodern, to contemporary terrorist "theatres.