by Richard Schechner
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by Victor Witter Turner
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by Richard Schechner
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From Ritual to Theatre: The Human Seriousness of Play (PAJ Books) by Victor Witter Turner |
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Performance Theory
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"Schechner's views are usually provocative, his incidental comments are often acute, and he has a commendable gift for making unexpected connections." -- British Journal of Aesthetics
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This cogent and provocative compilation of essays is now a classic text for students of the emergent discipline of performance studies.
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For the last hundred years or more, Greek tragedy has been understood as an outgrowth of rites celebrated annually at the Festival of Dionysus. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
konj kaiko, integral audience, orthodox theater, fight packages, accidental audience, lifelike art, primal ritual, aesthetic drama, unconscious scanning, aesthetic theater, redressive action, redirected activities, environmental theater, proscenium theater, song duel, trance dancer, symbolic time, deep acting, selective inattention, informal court, facial displays, irrevocable acts, ritual combat, western theater, social drama Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Papua New Guinea, The Performance Group, New York, Victor Turner, Mother Courage, Swiss Cheese, Living Theater, Robert Wilson, The Bacchae, The Bald Soprano, Australian Aborigines, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Bundongo Forest, Paul Ekman, Spalding Gray, Sri Lanka, Christopher Knowles, Erving Goffman, Odin Teatret, The Drama Review, Van Gennep, Eugenio Barba, Frederick Eberstadt, Large Cloud of Magellan, Richard Schechner New!
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For the last hundred years or more, Greek tragedy has been understood as an outgrowth of rites celebrated annually at the Festival of Dionysus. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
konj kaiko, integral audience, orthodox theater, fight packages, accidental audience, lifelike art, primal ritual, aesthetic drama, unconscious scanning, aesthetic theater, redressive action, redirected activities, environmental theater, proscenium theater, song duel, trance dancer, symbolic time, deep acting, selective inattention, informal court, facial displays, irrevocable acts, ritual combat, western theater, social drama Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Papua New Guinea, The Performance Group, New York, Victor Turner, Mother Courage, Swiss Cheese, Living Theater, Robert Wilson, The Bacchae, The Bald Soprano, Australian Aborigines, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Bundongo Forest, Paul Ekman, Spalding Gray, Sri Lanka, Christopher Knowles, Erving Goffman, Odin Teatret, The Drama Review, Van Gennep, Eugenio Barba, Frederick Eberstadt, Large Cloud of Magellan, Richard Schechner New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Surprise Me!
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- Mother Courage (Modern Plays) by David Hare on 4 pages
- Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts by Samuel Beckett on 4 pages
- Greek Religion: Belief and Experience by Thomas Harrison on page 2, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Towards a Poor Theatre (Theatre Arts (Routledge Paperback)) by Grotowski on page 269, and Back Matter
- Ancient Art and Ritual by Jane E. Harrison on page 3, and Back Matter
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- Performance and Transformation: New Approaches to Late Medieval Spirituality by Mary A. Suydam on 14 pages
- Perform or Else: From Discipline to Performance by Jon McKenzie on 5 pages
- Utopia in Performance: Finding Hope at the Theater by Jill Dolan on 4 pages
- Performance Studies: An Introduction by R. Schechner in Front Matter, page 6, and Back Matter
- Drama/Theatre/Performance (The New Critical Idiom) by Simon Shepherd on page 118, page 154, and Back Matter
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