philosophy and theatre an introduction

contingent fact about the language he uses, which has now become obsolete. Furthermore, plenty of the Greek works that do speak ...

Brecht, B. 4,14 n30,56 n36, 66,93 n58, 161 n3,176 n25, 178– 89 broad-sense politics 161– 4 broad-sense theatre 8– 10 Brockett, O ...

of the ability of theatre to transmit an author’s beliefs. We saw, in Chapter 2, that deriving an author’s claims about the worl ...

epic poetry/drama 11, 24, 33, 68, 82, 181–4, 186 – 8 ethics xi, 7, 82–3, 101–2, 113–23, 146–7, 155 Euripides ix event, theatre a ...

A further thought, which might now count against the Platonic objection, relates to our conception of democracy. Plato expresses ...

Lamb, C. 14 Lawrence, D.H.154 n 69 Lear, J.27 n16,154 n66;68,155 n75, 156 learning from plays 48– 55 Lecouvreur, A. 121 left-win ...

then it is just a specific instance of the general statement, and what we have already said about political statements applies h ...

pageant plays 105 Palmer, F.55 n34,108 n 29 Paradise Lost 112 The Paradox of Acting114, 119, 121 paradox of tragedy 138– 49 perf ...

To take an example from the history of theatre: one historian has argued that the court plays performed in front of the absoluti ...

scenery 1–2, 7, 85, 105–7, 111 Schiller, F. xi, 66–7, 85,86 n43,101 n2, 105–7, 106 n23, 111,112 n 45 Schopenhauer, A. 67–8,67 n ...

avoidance ofstasis[civil strife or civil war]’at a time when tensions were high, following the assassination of a prominent demo ...

Varia Historia ix n 2 ventriloquism 176 venues 174– 5 verisimilitude 29–33, 88, 109, 120 Virgil 89 vocal emphasis 176 Voltaire x ...

never beaten. Blundered orders, in particular, can cause severe harm to those who obey them (‘Charge for the guns!’). In both ca ...

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Theatres in the later Greek world did, in fact, serve as venues for political debate and decision-making.^20 Wefind echoes of th ...

rise to its feet. In the context of the play, the departure of the soldiers from their small town is, to say the very least, not ...

performance–a time-consuming and expensive procedure–isn’t guar- anteed to pick up on what a large audience would respond to. No ...

Brecht’s political theatre Up to this point, we’ve looked at some general ways in which theatre can interact with politics. This ...

A second element of the Aristotelian drama is that it takes itself to present universal truths–truths that hold for all people a ...

universal truths). What about empathy? The connection between empa- thy and thefirst feature (reduction to emotional conflicts) ...