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Performance Theory (Routledge Classics) Paperback - 2003
by Schechner, Richard
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- Title Performance Theory (Routledge Classics)
- Author Schechner, Richard
- Binding Paperback
- Edition International Ed
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 407
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Routledge, London
- Date 2003-08-21
- Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # SKU0598169
- ISBN 9780415314558 / 0415314550
- Weight 1.01 lbs (0.46 kg)
- Dimensions 7.65 x 5.76 x 1.25 in (19.43 x 14.63 x 3.18 cm)
- Reading level 1190
- Library of Congress subjects Theater, Theater - Philosophy
- Dewey Decimal Code 792.01
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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 entertaiments. 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.
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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.