Theater of the OppressedIn this classic work on radical drama, Augusto Boal exposes the machinations that the ruling classes exercised on theatre to take control out of the hands of ordinary citizens. He shows how Brechtian and Marxian drama reverses this trend. |
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Aristotles Coercive System of Tragedy | 1 |
Machiavelli and the Poetics of Virtù | 2 |
What does Tragedy Imitate? | 12 |
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