Index
Note: References to notes are initalicswith the page number preceding and the note number
following the letter‘n,’e.g.ix n2,29 n25.
access 173, 175–7, 185
actors 2–3, 5, 8–9, 12–14, 21; emotion 128–9;
ethics 113–23; history plays 76; imitation/
imagination 25, 30–1, 36–7, 40–3; morality
108; political theatre 175, 177, 182–3, 186,
189; truth/illusion 52, 59, 61–3, 68
Adorno, T. 188, 190
Aegae Theatre 175
Aelianus, Claudiusix n 2
Aeschylus29 n25, 31, 75–7,78 n13, 79, 87–8,
89 n47, 172– 3
Aesop 108
Agathon 27
Agnes Bernauer 107
AIDS plays 166
D’Alembert, J. 101–2,101 n 3 – 4,102 n5, 104–6,
113 – 15, 171
Alexander the Great 175
alienation effect 183
An Enemy of the People 64
Ancient Greece ix–x, 1, 6, 23–4, 31, 41, 47;
history 75–6, 78, 82–3, 89; morality 105,
114; political theatre 162, 167–8, 171, 174–5,
177 – 8, 182; truth/illusion 47, 67– 70
Antigone 82 – 3, 147
anti-Semitism 160– 1
apartheid 177– 8
Apollonian art 68– 9
Apologyix, xii,171 n 14
applied theatre 166
archaeology 81
Arendt, H. 162,162 n 4
Aristophanes ix, xii, 27, 75,76 n6, 167– 8
Aristotle x–xi, xii, 14–15; catharsis 33, 129–30,
144 – 5, 149–55; emotions 129–30, 138, 144,
149 – 56; history 79–80, 90–1;mimesis21,
32 – 5, 39, 41–3; morality 102, 104, 106, 112,
114, 119; politics 169, 171, 178–9; truth/
illusion 52–4,52 n25,53 n30, 68– 9
art, definitions 129
art theatre 5
art theory 185
Artaud, A. 47–8,51 n22, 152
assassination 175
Assembly 174, 177
Athenian theatre ix–x, 30–1, 47, 75–6, 168,
171 – 4
Attic theatre 14, 67
audience 2–3, 7–8, 25–6, 31–2, 34– 40 see also
spectators; emotion 128, 131, 142; history
85, 87–9; morality 105–6, 108, 114, 117,
123; political theatre 162, 165–8, 170, 173,
175 – 7, 179, 181–8; truth/illusion 48, 51,
55 – 6, 58, 60–1, 63, 65– 7
Augustine 65,105 n19, 152
authenticity 84, 118–19, 122
authoritarianism 169, 176
avant-garde theatre 2Balme, C. xii, 3, 5, 16,152 n 61 – 2
bare stage 4–5, 10, 59
Barish, J. xiii,26 n12, 28, 43,47 n3,117 n70,
124
Barthes, R.80 n 20
BBC 9
Beaumarchais, P.A. 170
Beckett, S.50 n 11
Benjamin, W. 8
Bentley, E. 4, 6,162 n4,167 n11, 188– 9
Bible 78, 106
Blanning, T.89 n 49
Blue Blouse troupes 166
Boal, A.55 n 35
Boris Godunov84, 88