Performance'...this superb book should be required reading for every drama and literature student and all trainee actors and directors.' Times Higher Educational Supplement |
Contents
A New Poetics? 11 | 13 |
Towards a New Poetics | 63 |
Movement and Sound | 91 |
Copyright | |
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achieved act of designation actant action actor aesthetic Aristotle artistic aspect audience's awareness becomes behaviour breath Brecht Büchner Caesar candle centre character classic cognitive complex consciousness contrast conventions costume create culture dance David Storey describes dialectic dominant Dr Faustus drama effect emotions epic theatre EXIT expression feel function Hamlet iambic pentameter imagination imitation individual integration intimate space Julius Caesar King Lear language learning light linguistic Macbeth make-up mask means merely metaphor Midsummer Night's Dream moral move movement nature negative capability night Oedipus off-stage Othello performance space performer's performers and audiences physical play Poetics political possible practical problem prop proxemic reception theory rehearsal relationship relativisation relativity represent rhythm rhythmic Richard II role scene Semiotics sense Shakespeare signals significance skills social Sonnet 15 sound spatial speech stage synecdoche television theatre theatre's theatrical theory tragedy venues voice whole words