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Performance theory / Richard Schechner.

Performance theory / Richard Schechner.
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ISBN 0415314550
Name Schechner, Richard, 1934- author
Uniform title Essays on performance theory, 1970-1976
Title Performance theory / Richard Schechner.
Edition Revised and expanded edition, with a new preface by the author, [Routledge classics ed.].
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.
Description xix, 407 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Series Routledge classics
Notes Previous ed.: 1988.
Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [368]-382) and index.
Contents Approaches -- Actuals -- Drama, script, theater, and performance -- From ritual to theater and back : the efficacy, entertainment braid -- Toward a poetics of performance -- Selective inattention -- Ethology and theater -- Magnitudes of performance -- Rasaesthetics.
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 this "Routledge Classics" edition, 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 that separated audience and actor ever since."--Back cover.
Donated by Nell Fraser;
Subjects Theater
Performative (Philosophy)
Performing arts
Added Names Schechner, Richard, 1934-, Essays on performance theory, 1970-1976 author,
Added titles Essays on performance theory, 1970-1976.
Series Routledge classics
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