philosophy and theatre an introduction

arguably more significant. It also has some historical support: certainly, in medieval texts, the Latin termludi is found to ref ...

theatre with the ethics of everyday life.^15 Creating a definition with a particular aesthetic or philosophical goal in mind is ...

theatrical performance can go wrong in a way that afilm can’t: actors can get put off, forget lines, corpse; equally, actors may ...

the other kinds of performance under consideration (but, then again, the spoken word is often a feature of other kinds of artist ...

buildings.^24 Plays are adapted asfilms and vice versa, used as the basis for operas, as inspiration for dance performances. We ...

The Old Vic’s 1960 production of Romeo and Juliet would, on this understanding, be renaissance drama and post-war theatre. We ca ...

itself to a narrow, traditional focus on a Western literary canon, to the exclusion of other, marginalised forms of theatre that ...

going to see? Not really: this performance differs considerably from another performance I have seen; but they are bothHamlet; s ...

analysis are mostly irrelevant; any attempt to tell performers what to do, based on the words of some playwright (dead or alive) ...

work.^32 None of these pressures obviously applies to play texts as works of dramatic literature–so one can see why reading a pl ...

directors and theatre companiescanmake all sorts of creative decisions about how to use the text ofHamlet, including using it in ...

Notes 1 For a sample case, see Hamilton (2007: 47), who describes a scenario developed from Handke’s Offending the Audience. Cer ...

29 Lessing (1962: Section 80) 30 Loosely (i.e. anachronistically) speaking, this is certainly true of Sophocles, Shakespeare, Mo ...

Part I FROM THE WORLD TO THE STAGE ...

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2 Mimesis: Imitation and Imagination The writings of two philosophers–teacher and pupil–have shaped our politics, our religion, ...

behavioural imitation: when husbands commit adultery, their wives often imitate them or follow their example. Third, impersonati ...

third party, that is, that the columns should look like palm trees and the voice sound like a nightingale. In the case of the ad ...

Some kinds of poetry, Socrates explains, involve narration; others involve narration andmimesis; others involvemimesis only. By ...

GLAUCON: No, I don’t think we would. SOCRATES: Then there’s the one made by the carpenter. [...] And then the one made by the pa ...