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Notes on the Theatre of the Ridiculous
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8917914 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stefan Brecht (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1968 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 117-141 |
| Publication date | 1968-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Drama Review TDR (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0012-5962 • E-ISSN: 2326-2060 |
| Publisher | The MIT Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1144443 |
| OpenAlex | W2796901097 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
This theatre has attracted little but unfavorable notice: it is slovenly, amateurish, silly, just boring; a put-on, really an actors’ lark; not art, certainly not serious art; a coterie occasion for a pariah in-group; by & for queers (not the nice kind, but drag queens & dykes & leather/motorbike/S&M hard trade); a display case for transvestites, pure camp, devoted to movie fetishism; anyhow just adolescent pornography; ritual enactment of an impotent humiliation of women (vicious, loveless); pointless, emotionally impactless, untheatrical; certainly devoid of social relevance; in sum, stupid & immoral. The theatre of the ridiculous is an important theatre and theatre form. I want to interpret here my impression of the theatre's theatrical impact, in the light of interviews with John Vaccaro, Charles Ludlam, Mary Woronow & some written pieces of Ronald Tavel's & Jack Smith's—keeping Freud, Sartre, Artaud, de Sade, Genet, Warhol & la pataphysique out of it
Aesthetics · Art · Fetishism · Humiliation · Literature · Notice · Pariah group · Political science · Politics · Pornography · Psychoanalysis · Ridiculous · Sociology · Law · Psychology · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,04 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2001 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |