A Cultural History of TheatreThis comprehensive, multicultural text presents the history of theater within a framework of cultural and social ideas. |
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... experience , we are giving it shape and thereby giving it meaning . We may be acting out the way we want something to happen ( a group of hunters imagines how they will kill their prey ) . We may be retelling an event that already has ...
... experience , we are giving it shape and thereby giving it meaning . We may be acting out the way we want something to happen ( a group of hunters imagines how they will kill their prey ) . We may be retelling an event that already has ...
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Jack Clair Watson, Grant Fletcher McKernie. wisdom . Each tragic experience is a component of universal justice ; to understand the experience is to understand justice . Because suffering can rarely be avenged or ex- plained at the ...
Jack Clair Watson, Grant Fletcher McKernie. wisdom . Each tragic experience is a component of universal justice ; to understand the experience is to understand justice . Because suffering can rarely be avenged or ex- plained at the ...
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... experience for the audience . The actor is therefore more than an interpreter . The actor is a person who opens himself to the full meaning of a dramatic action in order to share that experience with the audience . To do this , the ...
... experience for the audience . The actor is therefore more than an interpreter . The actor is a person who opens himself to the full meaning of a dramatic action in order to share that experience with the audience . To do this , the ...
Contents
Classical Athens | 10 |
Theatre at Epidauros | 12 |
Doryphorus | 19 |
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