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xxi, 208 pages ; 22 cm In this remarkable classic work on radical drama, Augusto Boal exposes the machinations that the ruling classes exercised on theatre to take control out of the hands of ordinary citizens. He shows how Brechtian and Marxian drama reverses this trend Previous ed. i.e 1st ed.: 1979 Includes index Preface -- The Unruly Protagonist -- 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

Author

Augusto Boal

Publisher

Pluto Press

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9781849644549

Subjects

Sports, Literary Fiction, Humanities