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    STUDIA DRAMATICA - Issue no. 2 / 2012  
         
  Article:   THE PLAY-WITHIN-THE-PLAY AS REWRITING: THE THEATRE OF THE LIVING DEAD / LE THÉÂTRE DANS LE THÉÂTRE COMME RÉÉCRITURE : LES SPECTACLES DES MORTS-VIVANTS.

Authors:  DANA MONAH. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  The Play-within-the-play as Rewriting: the Theatre of the Living Dead. On The Sensation of Elasticity When Walking Upon Corpses (2010), by Romanian-French author Matei Visniec and Disciples (2005) by Romanian-Hungarian author András Visky both have as protagonists political prisoners playing the most canonical plays of the theatre of the absurd: Ionesco’s Bald Soprano and respectively Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. Starting from the modalities in which fictional worlds interact in the two ‘productions’, this article argues that the plays-within-the-play can both be considered as rewritings of Ionesco’s and Beckett’s masterpieces.

Keywords: play-within-the-play, rewriting, Visniec, Visky, Ionesco, Beckett, political prison. 		 
         
     
         
         
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