philosophy and theatre an introduction

look like if those events were really to take place). We discussed this point in relation to Plato’s arguments aboutmimesis, so ...

many of these, on closer inspection, look unfair or rest on questionable premises. Further Reading For Plato’s attack on the mor ...

know what the Greeks were up to until it was too late.^47 The history play is the telling, or retelling, of the familiar story.^ ...

15 Rousseau (2004: 311–3). Rousseau associates arguments for male/female equality with city- dwellers–i.e. with those who know a ...

in the assemblies of the people and in the senate, at their debating; in the streets, at their seditions; and in thefield, at th ...

41 Among the apologists for the character of the misanthrope is Rousseau. Historians suggest that this probably wasn’t the attit ...

conclusion). Plays are more vivid than books. Perhaps they are easier to remember. Plays might (like diagrams, maps or dioramas) ...

77 See, for example, Lessing (1962: Section 3, p. 12); for accounts of the‘circle of effect’response to Diderot, see Carlson’s h ...

the human being who lived, breathed and was guillotined in 1794, having apparently shot himself in the face. Plays do not need t ...

6 Emotions I leave the performance of Uncle Vanya with a peculiar mixture of emotions. Undoubtedly, they are imprecise,fleeting ...

of a set of facts about the past. Those facts are interpreted and a version of them is presented to the audience. As before, tho ...

This description is hardly complete; perhaps some of it rings a bell, and perhaps not. But I hope it is not completely incompreh ...

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

For both Aristotle and Tolstoy, in rather different ways, the production of feeling must lie at the heart of theatre. However, i ...

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

1 We are moved by the fate of the characters in the play. 2 We know that the characters in the play do not exist. 3 We are moved ...

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

care about Vanya’s particular concerns and also care about how not to waste my life. The one does not exclude the other. The que ...

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

about Kendall Walton’s theory of make-believe in the context of the discussion ofmimesis. For Walton, once we view plays (and ot ...