This volume represents a collection of contributions presented by the authors during the Second Annual University of Chicago Oriental Institute Seminar "Perform

This book examines the recent trend for re-performance and how this impacts on the relationship between live performance and death. Focusing specifically on exa

Following the death of her father, journalist and hospice volunteer Ann Neumann sets out to examine what it means to die well in the United States. When Ann Neu

The essays brought together in this collection offer new perspectives on the eros/death relation in a wide selection of dramatic texts, theatrical practices and

Drawing on literary and visual texts spanning from the twelfth century to the present, this volume of essays explores what happens when narratives try to push t