Modernism and the Theatre of the Baroque

Kate Armond is Lecturer in International Modernism at the University of Essex. Her first monograph Modernism and the Theatre of the Baroque was published by Edinburgh University Press in 2017, and her research interests include Comparative Literature, Modernism, Evolutionary Science, Marxist theory, Philosophy, and Performance Studies. Her work has been published in Textual Practice Modernist Cultures, The Journal of Wyndham Lewis Studies, The Literary Encyclopaedia, TES and in edited collections.

Armond’s practice-informed, baroque-centred rendering of Craig’s term provides a new way to understand it, contributing to theatre historiography in a fascinating way.

• Introduction1. Baroque Europe2. Modern Allegory: Reading Nightwood through the Forms of the Baroque Trauerspiel3. Baroque Vienna: Nightwood’s Lost Enlightened Modernity4. Nightwood, Baroque Sound and Schrei Performance5. Baroque Bodies: Agency, Expression and Movement6. The Apes of God and the World of the CommediaConclusionBibliography