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Automata and mimesis on the stage of theatre history

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Automata and mimesis on the stage of theatre history/ Kara Reilly.
Author:	Reilly, Kara.
Published:	Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ;Palgrave Macmillan, : 2011.,
Description:	1 online resource (xi, 220 p.)
Subject:	Drama - History and criticism. -
Online resource:	http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230347540
ISBN:	9780230347540 (electronic bk.)

Automata and mimesis on the stage of theatre history
Reilly, Kara.

Automata and mimesis on the stage of theatre history[electronic resource] /Kara Reilly. - Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ;Palgrave Macmillan,2011. - 1 online resource (xi, 220 p.)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Reformation Iconoclasm -- Descartes' Mimetic Faculty -- From Aristocrats to Autocrats: The Elite as Automata -- Olympia's Legacy -- Death of the Automaton, Birth of the Robot Draft -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index --.

This book explores automata or early robots as performers on the stage of theatre history. Automata are precursors to our digital culture, demonstrating that our spectacular culture of machine-based entertainments has numerous historical precedents. Automata are surprisingly saturated with intellectual and cultural history. Chapters examine topics like English Reformation Iconoclasm's fear that art might surpass God's nature in Elizabethan moving statues; the influence that hydraulic garden automata had on Descartes' mechanical philosophy; automata as ideal objects of the aristocracy in eighteenth-century Europe; theatrical productions focussed on that alluring automaton Olympia; and a case study of R.U.R., the drama that coined the word Robot. At its heart, this study examines automata as both performative objects of mimesis and metaphors for the period in which they are explored.

ISBN: 9780230347540 (electronic bk.)

Source: 364659Palgrave Macmillanhttp://www.palgraveconnect.comSubjects--Topical Terms:

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Drama
--History and criticism.Index Terms--Genre/Form:

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Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PN1650.R63 / R36 2011

Dewey Class. No.: 809.2/9356

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