Description
- growing field of study; the nature of theatre is increasingly up for debate
- cross-over potential with Philosophy - useful for interdisciplinary courses at advanced undergraduate and graduatre levels.
Table of Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
FOREWORD by Marvin Carlson
INTRODUCTION Theatre and the Mirror of Nature
PART I Exposing the Problem and Proposing a Solution
1 Theatrical Names and Reference: Dialectical-Synecdochic Objects and "Re-Creation"
2 The World of the Play: Theatre as "Re-Creation"
PART II Applying the (Proposed) Solution to the Problems
3 "Liveness"?: The Presumption of Dramatic and Theatrical "Liveness"
4 Boundedness of (Fictional) Theatre to our (Real) World: Actor and Audience Co-Existence
5 Identity across "Possible Worlds": "The World Beyond" the Play
CONCLUSIONS
#1 "The Purpose of Playing": Why Go to the Theatre?
#2 Where the World of Theatre Ends: Performance Art
#3 Make-Believe
AFTERWORD by James R. Hamilton
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
