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Get the guests, Through a detailed reading of five great modern American plays—<i>The Iceman Cometh, A Streetcar Named Desire, Death of a Salesman, Long Day's Journey Into Night</i>, and <i>Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?</i>—Walter A. Davis calls for a more penetrating , Get the guests has a rating of 3 stars
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  • Written by author Walter A. Davis
  • Published by Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, c1994., 1994/06/30
  • Through a detailed reading of five great modern American plays—The Iceman Cometh, A Streetcar Named Desire, Death of a Salesman, Long Day's Journey Into Night, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?—Walter A. Davis calls for a more penetrating
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Acknowledgments
A Methodological Note
Prologue: In the Theatre
Introduction: The Medusa and the Shield 3
The Being of the Critic 3
The Being of the Text 5
The Being of Drama 8
The Actor's Being 11
Incipit tragoedia 12
1 Souls on Ice: The Iceman Cometh 13
Group Psychology: An Introductory Sketch 14
Act I: Catharsis Through Comedy 16
Act II: Aggression, Anxiety, and Collective Death-Work 21
Act III: Acting Out One's Paralysis: Death-Work as Comedy of the Absurd 28
Act IV: Death-Work In and For Itself 39
2 The Perfect Couple: A Streetcar Named Desire 60
Role Playing...and Identity 60
Four Characters, One Complex: A Hermeneutic Circle 66
The Unholy Trinity: Sex Appeal, Flirting, Rape 72
Sexuality as Mutual Cruelty 75
3 All in the Family: Death of a Salesman 103
Representation, Intention, and Ideology 103
Act I: Come Back With Your Shield - and On It 107
Act II: Inside the Head 124
4 Drug of Choice: Long Day's Journey into Night 147
Act I: Blame and the Circle of Displacements 147
Act II: Guilt and the System of Defenses 160
Act III: The Return of the Projections: or, Mary's Narratives 175
Act IV: Self-Revelation as Self-Unraveling 186
5 The Academic Festival Overture: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 209
Albee's Dramatic Prozess: Getting to the Marrow 209
Act I: Games Couples Play 217
Act II: Walpurgisnacht as Kadavergehorsamkeit 232
Act III: The Exorcist Cometh 245
Epilogue: Entering the Crypt - Beyond Reparation and the Symbolic Order 263
Notes 267
Index 279


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