pageant plays 105
Palmer, F.55 n34,108 n 29
Paradise Lost 112
The Paradox of Acting114, 119, 121
paradox of tragedy 138– 49
performance 6, 11–16, 36–7, 40, 49;
emotion 129, 132, 134–6, 138, 142, 148;
history 76, 80; political theatre 164–9,
173 – 7, 183–4, 187–9; truth/illusion 55, 61,
66, 70
performance art 177
Performance Studies 5
performers 3–8, 10, 14, 114
Persian Wars 75–6, 79
The Persians 75 – 8,78 n13, 87
Phèdre30, 34, 106, 111– 12
Philip II of Macedon 175
Phrynikos76 n 5
Pinkard, T.83 n 29
Pinter, H. 10
Pirandello136 n 10
Piscator, E. 161
Plato ix–xi,ix n1, xii, xiii, 4, 21, 23–36, 40–1,
43, 47–8, 65, 70, 79, 88, 109–10, 114, 116–17,
120 – 3, 130, 138, 150, 169–72, 182,187 n54,
189
play textseetext
playwrights 7, 9, 14, 27, 29; history 75–8,
81 – 2, 86, 88, 90, 92, 94–5;mimesis 32 – 5;
morality 101, 105, 107, 112, 120;
political theatre 161, 165, 167–72, 174,
178, 180, 185, 187; truth/illusion 51,
53, 62
pleasure 102–5, 138–50, 155
plots 1–2, 14, 49, 67–9, 83, 114, 147, 181
pluralism 138, 148– 9
Plutarch 50, 78, 85, 89–90,90 n50, 108, 110
poetic justice 111
Poeticsx, 32–4,39 n50,52 n24,79 n 14 – 15,
104,114 n 55 – 6,129 n4, 149–52,149 n43,
179
poetry 182, 188
polis83, 162
political philosophy 163–4, 178, 185– 6
The Political Theatre 161
politics xi, 105, 160–92; access 175–7; Brecht
178 – 89; broad/narrow-sense 161–5, 167,
169, 174; event 177; location 174–5; in
performance 164–8, 174–7; political
philosophy 163–4; public expression 175–7;
questions and imperatives 171–4;
statements and morals 168–71; in text
164 – 74
Politics149,155 n 74
pomography 112
Pompey the Great 175
postdramatic theatre 11
posterity 165
producers 14
propaganda 166, 169
props 59
Prynn the Puritan 115
psychology 65, 110, 133, 141,149 n42, 153
public expression 175– 7
public sphere 161
Puchner, M.ix n2, xiii,27 n13,47 n5, 110,
110 n 37
puns 167, 176
puppet theatre 3
purging 151– 4
purification 151, 154– 5
puritanism 115, 175
Pushkin, A. 76, 78, 84, 88,88 n 45quasi-emotion 134– 5
questions 168, 171–4, 185
quotation 91–2, 94Racine, J.B. 30, 105–6, 111
Radford, C. 131
radio plays 2
relation to other art forms xii
representation xi, 59, 84, 122
The Republic 23 – 4, 26–35,34 n40,36 n42, 40
n53,110 n34, 116–17, 170– 1
rhapsodes 24, 182, 187
Rhetoric150,154 n 67
rhetoric/rhetoricians 55, 63, 93
Ridley, A.16 n37,142 n 30
robot theatre 3
Rokem, F. xiii, 27–8, 43,91 n54, 96
role-models 25–6, 116– 17
role-play 166
Romeo and Juliet11,86 n43, 112
Rorty, A.16 n37, 44,142 n 30
Rosmersholm 147
Rousseau, J.-J. xi, xiii, 55, 66,66 n61, 101, 101
n2, 103–7, 110, 112,112 n42, 114–15, 114
n57, 117–19, 121–3,122 n85, 146, 171
Royal Court Theatre 160– 1
Russell, B. 49– 50
Russian Revolution 166, 184, 187
Ryle, G.78 n 11sadism 140, 148
Salamis, Battle of 75, 78–9, 87– 8
Saltz, D. xiii,9n22, 13, 15
Sartre, Jean-Paul xi,39 n 47 – 8,41 n 55Index 207