Humanism, Drama, and Performance

Unwriting Theatre

Hana Worthen (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

XIII, 301 Seiten

2020 | 1st ed. 2020
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-44065-7 (ISBN)

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This book examines the appropriation of theatre and theatrical performance by ideologies of humanism, in terms that continue to echo across the related disciplines of literary, drama, theatre, and performance history and studies today. From Aristotle onward, theatre has been regulated by three strains of critical poiesis: the literary, segregating theatre and the practices of the spectacular from the humanizing work attributed to the book and to the internality of reading; the dramatic, approving the address of theatrical performance only to the extent that it instrumentalizes literary value; and the theatrical, assimilating performance to the conjunction of literary and liberal values. These values have been used to figure not only the work of theatre, but also the propriety of the audience as a figure for its socializing work, along a privileged dualism from the aestheticized ensemble-harmonizing actor, character, and spectator to the essentialized drama-to the politicized assembly, theatre understood as an agonistic gathering.

Hana Worthen is Associate Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at Barnard College, Columbia University, USA, and an Associate Director of Barnard's Center for Translation Studies. She writes from the intersections of theatre/performance humanism and critical posthumanism, human/animal rights and interspecies ethics, and transmedia and multiplatform performance.

1. Introduction: Unwriting Theatre.- 2. Martial's damnatio ad bestias.- 3. Augustine's spectacula.- 4. Lessing's Vermenschlichung.- 5. Pinkins's Alienating Gestus.- 6. Kivimaa's Living Humanism.- 7. Disassembling Performance.

Erscheinungsdatum	15.10.2020
Zusatzinfo	XIII, 301 p. 2 illus.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	539 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
Schlagworte	Aristotle • Butler • dramatic • Horace • Humanism • Liberal • Literary • Martial • Said • Theatre
ISBN-10	3-030-44065-6 / 3030440656
ISBN-13	978-3-030-44065-7 / 9783030440657
Zustand	Neuware