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Theatricality as Medium

Theatricality as Medium

Weber, Samuel

Hardcover

PhilosophyTheater History

ISBN10: 0823224155
ISBN13: 9780823224159
Publisher: Fordham Univ Pr
Published: Dec 1 2004
Pages: 414
Weight: 1.50
Height: 1.14 Width: 6.38 Depth: 9.24
Language: English

Ever since Aristotle's Poetics, both the theory and the practice of theater have been governed by the assumption that it is a form of representation dominated by what Aristotle calls the mythos, or the plot. This conception of theater has subordinated characteristics related to the theatrical medium, such as the process and place of staging, to the demands of a unified narrative.

This readable, thought-provoking, and multidisciplinary study explores theatrical writings that question this aesthetical-generic conception and seek instead to work with the medium of theatricality itself. Beginning with Plato, Samuel Weber tracks the uneasy relationships among theater, ethics, and philosophy through Aristotle, the major Greek tragedians, Shakespeare, Kierkegaard, Kafka, Freud, Benjamin, Artaud, and many others who develop alternatives to dominant narrative-aesthetic assumptions about the theatrical medium.

His readings also interrogate the relation of theatricality to the introduction of

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