philosophy and theatre an introduction

often appealed to for practical advice and education as well as for models of virtue, in a way that is unthinkable today.^10 In ...

idiosyncratic. However, there are some reasons to be suspicious of this mode of presentation, which it seems appropriate toflag ...

art for Plato is twice removed from the reality it attempts to portray.^18 Whatever Plato meant by repeatedly distancing himself ...

included) would now take Plato’s metaphysical claims about the forms seriously; but we are more concerned with his claims about ...

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France in the next (as in Henry V). It’s hardly an everyday, life-like experience to see a single place (the stage) change from ...

Philosophy and Theatre The relationship between philosophy and theatre is a central theme in the writings of Plato and Aristotle ...

god of wine–Dionysus). In its mature form, this festival hosted plays in an open-air theatre that could seat about 14,000 people ...

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displaying the world to its audience can survive (and has survived). It’s just that the simplistic notion of a theatre that trie ...

Philosophy and Theatre An Introduction Tom Stern ...

parallel text on comedy, which, if it was ever written, has not survived) in a way thatThe Republicis not. Aristotle does have b ...

First published 2014 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN Simultaneously published in the USA and Ca ...

Aristotle is clearly interested in describing a skill that Plato doesn’t acknowledge: playwrights have to select which parts of ...

For David, Joy, Rosalie, Sam–with thanks. ...

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on the audience or viewer) there may be overriding reasons to get some details wrong. A painter, for example, might deliberately ...

Contents Acknowledgements viii Preface ix 1 What is Theatre? 1 PART I From the World to the Stage 19 2 Mimesis: Imitation and Im ...

So far, all we’ve said is that, in addition to imitation-mimesis, theatre involves some kind of imagining or play-acting. These ...

Acknowledgements My thanks,first of all, to those who gave me comments on the manuscript, the proposal or related material: Gabr ...