philosophy and theatre an introduction

knowing how does not consist in the knowledge of any particular propo- sition; second, knowing how manifests itself in having a ...

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

been dissident voices.^36 But the question of what the illusion is and the related question of whether the audience is in some s ...

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

Optical illusion The Fraser Spiral (seefigure) is an optical illusion: it is carefully con- structed in such a way that it looks ...

Part I FROM THE WORLD TO THE STAGE ...

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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