Herbert Blau is Byron W. and Alice L. Lockwood Professor Emeritus of the Humanities at the University of Washington, USA. He has also had a parallel career in the theater, as co-founder and co-director of The Actor's Workshop of San Francisco, then co-director of the Repertory Theater of Lincoln Center in New York, and as artistic director of the experimental group KRAKEN. His publications include The Dubious Spectacle: Extremities of Theater (2002), Nothing in Itself: Complexions of Fashion (1988), Sails of the Herring Fleet: Essays on Beckett (2004), As If: An Autobiography (Volume 1 2012), and Reality Principles: From the Absurd to the Virtual (2011).

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• Introduction, Elin Diamond; Chapter 1 A Loft, in the Early Days; Chapter 2 Chapter 2 Coming Up the Ramp; Chapter 3 Chapter 3 Alienation and the Absurd; Chapter 4 Chapter 4 Reason Not the Need; Chapter 5 Chapter 5 Mixed Blessings and the Sorcery of Persuasion; Chapter 6 Chapter 6 Home Stretch; Chapter thewinding The Winding Sheet; Index;

Herbert Blau is Byron W. and Alice L. Lockwood Professor Emeritus of the Humanities at the University of Washington, USA. He has also had a parallel career in the theater, as co-founder and co-director of The Actor's Workshop of San Francisco, then co-director of the Repertory Theater of Lincoln Center in New York, and as artistic director of the experimental group KRAKEN. His publications include The Dubious Spectacle: Extremities of Theater (2002), Nothing in Itself: Complexions of Fashion (1988), Sails of the Herring Fleet: Essays on Beckett (2004), As If: An Autobiography (Volume 1 2012), and Reality Principles: From the Absurd to the Virtual (2011).

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• Introduction, Elin Diamond; Chapter 1 A Loft, in the Early Days; Chapter 2 Chapter 2 Coming Up the Ramp; Chapter 3 Chapter 3 Alienation and the Absurd; Chapter 4 Chapter 4 Reason Not the Need; Chapter 5 Chapter 5 Mixed Blessings and the Sorcery of Persuasion; Chapter 6 Chapter 6 Home Stretch; Chapter thewinding The Winding Sheet; Index;

Herbert Blau is Byron W. and Alice L. Lockwood Professor Emeritus of the Humanities at the University of Washington, USA. He has also had a parallel career in the theater, as co-founder and co-director of The Actor's Workshop of San Francisco, then co-director of the Repertory Theater of Lincoln Center in New York, and as artistic director of the experimental group KRAKEN. His publications include The Dubious Spectacle: Extremities of Theater (2002), Nothing in Itself: Complexions of Fashion (1988), Sails of the Herring Fleet: Essays on Beckett (2004), As If: An Autobiography (Volume 1 2012), and Reality Principles: From the Absurd to the Virtual (2011).

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• Introduction, Elin Diamond; Chapter 1 A Loft, in the Early Days; Chapter 2 Chapter 2 Coming Up the Ramp; Chapter 3 Chapter 3 Alienation and the Absurd; Chapter 4 Chapter 4 Reason Not the Need; Chapter 5 Chapter 5 Mixed Blessings and the Sorcery of Persuasion; Chapter 6 Chapter 6 Home Stretch; Chapter thewinding The Winding Sheet; Index;