Theatre and the Threshold of Death - Bok av Kathleen (Academic Marketing) Gough - Inbunden
On the eve of a global pandemic, a theatre professor becomes immersed in the lives of five artist-mystics, each of whom is a \first\ in her field: Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179), the first known musical composer, Eleanora Duse (1858-1924), the first modern actor in the Western world, Simone Weil (1909-1943), philosopher, activist and mystic, who Albert Camus called \the only great spirit of our time,\ Marina Abramovic (b. 1946), \the grandmother of performance art,\ and Hilma af Klint (1862-1944),..
