The secret life of theater : on the nature and function of theatrical representation /
What is the secret DNA of theater? What makes it unique from its sister arts? Why was it invented? Why does it persist? And now, in such an advanced technological age, why do we still feel compelled to return to a mode of expression that was invented over two thousand years ago? These are some of th...
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2019.
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Table of Contents:
- Part I: The invention of the outside: on the nature and functions of theatre
- Part II: Nine and a half tableaux: theater's ek-static ability to bring what is hidden into view
- Part III: From Sophocles' urn to Wittgenstein's box: theater and the engendering of fellow-feeling throughout the ages.