philosophy and theatre an introduction

Illusion is therefore compatible with an absence of false beliefs (about the illusion). Another way to put this would be to say ...

presents the sources–historical speeches–in an unusually direct and faithful manner. However, as Collingwood and others have lon ...

are conventions that we are able to‘read off’. The aim of creating a set that resembles as closely as possible what it represent ...

not. Hence, as it happens, one reviewer ofNurembergnoticed a black ste- nographer arriving on stage just when Goering‘explained’ ...

letuscallhim‘Houdini’,mayduring the course of his performance make use of optical illusions and set designs of the kind we have ...

then we may have misunderstood the task of the historian in thinking about the past. Further Reading Relatively little has been ...

going on, the action would not necessarily have the same effect. Just as Houdini creates tricks to convince the audience that so ...

14 Poetics51b. 15 Poetics51b. For an interpretation in terms of‘types’see, e.g., Frede (1992). 16 Reference to Herodotus at 51b. ...

case, it seems at least possible that, had Krull gone to see the performance knowing Müller-Rosé’s off-stage character and appea ...

46 A related question in film studies asks if viewers of films imagine themselves there at the events (or looking through the le ...

design of the stage; objects and materials that seem to be that which they are not; Houdini-type tricks, which make you think th ...

Part II FROM THE STAGE TO THE WORLD ...

at the turn of the previous century often focused on what would maintain or disrupt illusion. Thus, on the naturalist side, Ibse ...

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during tragedies, or, equivalently, look scared during horrorfilms) is far from uncontroversial and it has been the subject of m ...

5 A School of Morals? TheEncyclopaedia or, to give it its full alternative title, The Systematic Dictionary of the Arts, Science ...

nobody does so once the curtain goes down.^60 Indeed, Rousseau at one point complains that whatever beneficial moral effect is p ...

That is, although D’Alembert acknowledges that the Genevans are in some respects two hundred years ahead (of educated, late eigh ...

as we have seen, do seem to require deception or false belief on the part of the audience; others do not. However, it might be p ...

natural, that is, in any obvious way). Broadly speaking, we are talking about things that‘please us’, which is not the same as g ...