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9780415314558

Performance Theory

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415314558

  • ISBN10:

    0415314550

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 2003-10-16
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

Few have had quite as much impact in both the academy and in the world of theatre production as Richard Schechner. For more than four decades his work has challenged conventional definitions of theatre, ritual, and performance. When this seminal collection first appeared, Schechner's approach was not only novel, it was revolutionary: drama is not just something that occurs on stage, but something full of meaning operating on many levels in everyday life, in both secular and sacred rituals, play, sports, legal processes, and popular entertainments. Within these pages he examines the connections between Western and non-Western cultures, the performing arts, anthropology, rituals, performance in everyday life, playing, psychotherapy, and shamanism. For thisRoutledge Classicsedition, Schechner has written a new preface, revised and updated Chapter One and added a final chapter. Unparalleled within his field, Schechner redefined what performance means, and in doing so, has contested the boundaries thatseparated audience and actor ever since.

Author Biography

Richard Schechner (1938-). One of contemporary theater's most celebrated directors, he is also a world-renowned artist and scholar

Table of Contents

PREFACE TO THE ROUTLEDGE CLASSICS EDITION ix
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xiii
AUTHOR'S NOTE xv
INTRODUCTION: THE FAN AND THE WEB xvii
1 Approaches 1(25)
2 Actuals 26(40)
3 Drama, script, theater, and performance 66(46)
4 From ritual to theater and back: the efficacy entertainment braid 112(58)
5 Toward a poetics of performance 170(41)
6 Selective inattention 211(24)
7 Ethology and theater 235(55)
8 Magnitudes of performance 290(43)
9 Rasaesthetics 333(35)
REFERENCES 368(15)
INDEX 383

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