Theatre & feeling /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Hurley, Erin, 1969-
Imprint:	Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Description:	xv, 88 p. ; 18 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Theatre& Theatre&.
Subject:	Theater -- Psychological aspects. Emotions (Philosophy) Theater audiences. Emotions (Philosophy) Theater audiences. Theater -- Psychological aspects.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8125944

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Varying Form of Title:	Theatre and feeling
ISBN:	9780230218468 (pbk.) 0230218466 (pbk.)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"This book explores the idea that, for many people, theatre is a passion. It provides an intellectual framework for the range of emotional experience engendered by the theatre, bringing the issue of theatrical feeling into focus as both a research object and a method in theatre studies"--

Table of Contents:

Foreword
Theatre and Feeling
Types of Feeling
Feeling as the Raison d'Ã tre of Theatre: Connections to the Body and Brain
The Purpose of Theatre and its Form
Social Value and Social Work
Profiting from Feeling-Work
Feeling's Professional Significance: Acting
Further Reading