| Description |
viii, 184 pages ; 22 cm |
| Series |
New directions in theatre |
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New directions in theatre.
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| Contents |
The aesthetics of reception and theatre / Denis Calandra --- Production and reception in the theatre / Patrice Pavis --- Audience : Osiris, catharsis and the Feast of fools / Heinz Fischer --- Carnival and the poetics of reversal / Anthony Gash --- The hermeneutic approach to theatre and drama / Elinor Shaffer --- The concept of dialogue / Magnus Florin, Bo Göranzon and Per Sällström --- Theatricality and technology : Pygmalion and the myth of the intelligent machine / Julian Hilton |
| Summary |
The boom in interest in theatre studies at school and in further and higher education signals a new interest in the relationship between the theory and the practice of performance. The best tool you can give the learner is a good theory, and from this collection of theories, learners can choose the tools that best suit their approach to theatre studies. They range from reception theory and semiotics, to the anthropology of the audience and the carnivalesque to hermeneutics and computing |
| Analysis |
Theatre Criticism |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Theater.
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| Author |
Hilton, Julian.
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| LC no. |
92310203 |
| ISBN |
0333392914 |
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0333392922 (paperback) |
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