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Few have had quite as much impact in both the academy and in the world of theatre production as Richard Schechner. For more than four decades his work has challenged conventional definitions of theatre, ritual and performance. When this seminal collection first appeared, Schechner's approach was not only novel, it was revolutionary: drama is not just something that occurs on stage, but something that happens in everyday life, full of meaning, and on many different levels. Within these pages he examines the connections between Western and non-Western cultures, theatre and dance, anthropology, ritual, performance in everyday life, rites of passage, play, psychotherapy and shamanism.

ISBN-13: 9780415314558

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Publication Date: 08-21-2003

Pages: 432

Product Dimensions: 5.06(w) x 7.81(h) x (d)

Series: Routledge Classics (Paperback)

One of contemporary theatre's most celebrated directors, he is also a world-renowned artist and scholar.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Routledge Classics Edition ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Author's Note xv
Introduction: The Fan and the Web xvii
1 Approaches 1
2 Actuals 26
3 Drama, script, theater, and performance 66
4 From ritual to theater and back: the efficacy--entertainment braid 112
5 Toward a poetics of performance 170
6 Selective inattention 211
7 Ethology and theater 235
8 Magnitudes of performance 290
9 Rasaesthetics 333
References 368
Index 383