Dubious SpectacleSpanning a quarter of a century, the essays in this book rehearse, in the movement of memory and cross reflection, an extensive career in theater. The work of Herbert Blau his directing, writing, and criticism has been a determining force during this period as theater encounters theory. Blaus struggle to bring a critical intelligence to the American stage goes back half a century, to the quiescent postwar years (which he has eloquently described in