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Theatre of the Oppressed »
Authors: Augusto Boal, Charles McBride (Translator), Charles A. McBride (Translator), Maria-Odilia Leal McBride
ISBN-13: 9780930452490, ISBN-10: 0930452496
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Date Published: January 1993
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Augusto Boal
Book Synopsis
This unique resource for students, teachers and practitioners offers a series of games to illustrate techniques, acts as a mutlimedia encyclopaedia tracing the context and historical development of Theatre of the Oppressed.
Table of Contents
| Foreword | ||
| 1 | Aristotle's Coercive System of Tragedy | |
| 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 | ||
| 2 | Machiavelli and the Poetics of Virtu | |
| The Feudal Abstraction | ||
| The Bourgeois Concretion | ||
| Machiavelli and Mandragola | ||
| Modern Reductions of Virtu | ||
| 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 | ||
| 4 | Poetics of the Oppressed | |
| Experiments with the People's Theater in Peru | ||
| Conclusion: "Spectator," a Bad Word! | ||
| 5 | Development of the Arena Theater of Sao Paulo | |
| Need for the "Joker" | ||
| Goals of the "Joker" | ||
| Structures of the "Joker" | ||
| Appendices |
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