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Theatre of the Oppressed.
The innovative Brazilian playwright, director and international lecturer explicates Aristotle's poetics and the philosophies of Machiavelli, Hegel and Brecht to determine the extent to which their chief components--imitation, catharsis and, ultimately, audience control--serve up to support the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Theatre Communications Group,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Table of Contents; Foreword; 1. Aristotle's Coercive System of Tragedy ; Introduction; Art Imitates Nature; What is the Meaning of ""Imitation""?; What, then, is the Purpose of Art and Science?; Major Arts and Minor Arts; What does Tragedy Imitate?; What is Happiness?; And What is Virtue?; Necessary Characteristics of Virtue; The Degrees of Virtue; What is Justice?; In What Sense can Theater Function as an Instrument for Purification and Intimidation? ; The Ultimate Aim of Tragedy; A Short Glossary of Simple Words; How Aristotle's Coercive System of Tragedy Functions
- Different Types of Conflict: Hamartia and Social Ethos Conclusion; Notes; 2. Machiavelli and the Poetics of Virtu ; The Feudal Abstraction; The Bourgeois Concretion; Machiavelli and Mandragola; Modern Reductions of Virtu; Notes; 3. Hegel and Brecht: The Character as Subject or the Character as Object? ; The ""Epic"" Concept; Types of Poetry in Hegel; Characteristics of Dramatic Poetry, Still According to Hegel ; Freedom of the Character-Subject; A Word Poorly Chosen; Does Thought Determine Being (or Vice Versa)?; Can Man be Changed?; Conflict of Wills or Contradiction of Needs?
- Empathy or What? Emotion or Reason?Catharsis and Repose, or Knowledge and Action?; How to Interpret the New Works?; The Rest Does Not Count: They Are Minor Formal Differences Between the Three Genres; Empathy or Osmosis; Notes; 4. Poetics of the Oppressed; Poetics of the Oppressed; Experiments with the People's Theater in Peru; Notes; 5. Development of the Arena Theater of Sao Paulo ; First Stage; Need for the ""Joker""; Goals of the ""Joker""; Structures of the ""Joker""; Notes; Appendices