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Theatricality, playtexts and society /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Theatricality, playtexts and society // David Barnett.
Author:	Barnett, David,
Description:	1 online resource (71 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 14 May 2024).
Subject:	Theater - Philosophy. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009506311
ISBN:	9781009506311 (ebook)

Theatricality, playtexts and society /
Barnett, David,1968-

Theatricality, playtexts and society /David Barnett. - 1 online resource (71 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). - Cambridge elements. Elements in contemporary performance texts2753-2798.

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 14 May 2024).

Open Access.

This Element proposes a novel way of defining, understanding and approaching theatricality, a term that exists both in the theatre and, more broadly, in everyday life. It argues that four foundational, material processes of theatre-making manifest themselves in all playtexts in both overt and covert forms. Each of the four sections defines a different theatrical process, explores its functions in two chosen playtexts and examines its implications for the wider experience of the spectators outside the theatre. The Element concludes with a supplementary reflection on performance to show how even seemingly untheatrical playtexts can be analysed and staged to reveal their unspoken theatricality. It also argues that this new understanding of theatricality has a politics, that the artifice of any theatre and the constructedness of any society are analogous and that both, consequently, can be fundamentally changed. This Element is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

ISBN: 9781009506311 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

556266
Theater
--Philosophy.

LC Class. No.: PN2039 / .B37 2024

Dewey Class. No.: 792.01

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