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Author / Creator:Schechner, Richard, 1934-
Edition:Rev. and expanded ed., with a new preface / by the author.
Imprint:London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.
Description:xix, 407 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language:English
Series:Routledge classics
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6665062
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ISBN:0415314550
9780415314558
Notes:Rev. ed. of: Essays on performance theory, 1970-1976.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [368]-382) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface to the Routledge Classics Edition
  • Acknowledgments
  • Author's Note
  • Introduction: The Fan and the Web
  • 1. Approaches
  • 2. Actuals
  • 3. Drama, script, theater, and performance
  • 4. From ritual to theater and back: the efficacy--entertainment braid
  • 5. Toward a poetics of performance
  • 6. Selective inattention
  • 7. Ethology and theater
  • 8. Magnitudes of performance
  • 9. Rasaesthetics
  • References
  • Index