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The necessity of theater : the art of watching and being watched / Paul Woodruff.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Woodruff, Paul, 1943-2023, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Theater--Philosophy.
- Theater.
- Gaze.
- Theater--Psychological aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 257 pages)
- Other Title:
- Art of watching and being watched
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- What is unique and essential about theatre? What separates it from other arts? Do we need 'theatre' in some fundamental way? This text analyzes the unique power of theatre by separating it into the twin arts of watching and being watched, practised together in harmony by watchers and the watched.
- Contents:
- Why we need theater
- The art of being watched
- Defining the art
- What theater makes
- Action worth watching: plot
- Staging choices
- People worth watching: characters
- Sacred space
- Mimesis
- II: The art of watching
- Emotion
- Empathy
- Laughter
- Understanding theater
- The mask of wisdom.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-251) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-986818-2
- 1-283-34881-0
- 0-19-971575-0
- 9786613348814
- 1-281-85189-2
- 9786611851897
- 1-4356-5289-4
- OCLC:
- 234298025
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