Decadent Plays: 1890-1930: Salome; The Race of Leaves; The Orgy: A Dramatic Poem; Madame La Mort; Lilith; Ennoïa: A Triptych; The Black Maskers; - Paperback
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Decadent Plays: 1890-1930: Salome; The Race of Leaves; The Orgy: A Dramatic Poem; Madame La Mort; Lilith; Ennoïa: A Triptych; The Black Maskers;
Poisoned cigars, seductive apparitions, minds and empires in the last of their decline and the most notorious kiss in dramatic history - decadent plays challenged the moral as much as the dramatic imagination of their own day, and continue to probe horizons of taste and the possibilities of stagecraft.
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, many writers reacted to urban modernity by...
Adam Alston is Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Theatre at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is the author of Staging Decadence: Theatre, Performance, and the Ends of Capitalism (2023) and Beyond Immersive Theatre: Aesthetics, Politics and Productive Participation (2016), and co-editor of Theatre in the Dark: Shadow, Gloom and Blackout in Contemporary Theatre (with Martin Welton,...
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