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Theatricality: Insights from Barthes & Dort by lorenzoariel is a document available to read on EtoBox.
This document summarizes and discusses the concept of theatricality as proposed by Bernard Dort and Roland Barthes. It traces how the modern stage came to reveal its inherent emptiness as illusion gave way to an examination of simulacra. Theatricality emerged as theater developed an autonomy separate from other arts and focused on what was specifically theatrical rather than representational. Both Dort and Barthes saw a critical theater grounded in a "criticism in action" of theater itself through revealing
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- lorenzoariel
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- EN