• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: The roots of theatre : rethinking ritual and other theories of origin
  • Contains: THEORIES OF ORIGINS -- Basic Definitions -- The Ritual Origin of Tragedy -- The Ritual Origin of Comedy -- The Shamanistic Source -- The Recreation of Theatre by Christianity -- The Mummers' Plays -- The Adoption of Theatre by Judaism -- Back to Aristotle -- HEDGES AND BOUNDARIES -- Performance Theory -- The "Drama" of Real Life -- The Spirit of Carnival -- Culture as Play/Game -- A THEORY OF ROOTS -- The "Language" of Dreams -- Playing as Thinking -- Mythical Representation -- Retracing the Steps of History -- Reflections and Conclusions
  • Contributor: Roziḳ, Eliyahu [Author]
  • Corporation: NetLibrary, Inc
  • imprint: Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, c2002
    Online-Ausg.: Boulder, Colo: NetLibrary, 2004
  • Published in: Studies in theatre history and culture
    EBSCOhost eBook Collection
  • Extent: XIX, 362 S.; Ill; 25 cm
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 1587294265; 9781587294266; 9781587295874; 1587295873; 0877458170; 9780877458173
  • Keywords: Theater > Entstehung > Ritual
    Theater > Geschichte
  • Reproductino series: E-Books von NetLibrary
  • Type of reproduction: Online-Ausg.
  • Place of reproduction: Boulder, Colo: NetLibrary, 2004
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  • Footnote: Includes bibliographical references and index
    Electronic reproduction, Boulder, Colo : NetLibrary, 2004
    Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
  • Description: THEORIES OF ORIGINS -- Basic Definitions -- The Ritual Origin of Tragedy -- The Ritual Origin of Comedy -- The Shamanistic Source -- The Recreation of Theatre by Christianity -- The Mummers' Plays -- The Adoption of Theatre by Judaism -- Back to Aristotle -- HEDGES AND BOUNDARIES -- Performance Theory -- The "Drama" of Real Life -- The Spirit of Carnival -- Culture as Play/Game -- A THEORY OF ROOTS -- The "Language" of Dreams -- Playing as Thinking -- Mythical Representation -- Retracing the Steps of History -- Reflections and Conclusions