Research Catalog

Title

Theatre of the oppressed / Augusto Boal ; translated by Charles A. & Maria-Odilia Leal McBride.

Author

Boal, Augusto.

Publication

New York : Theatre Communications Group, 1985.

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Details

Description

xiv, 197 pages; 23 cm

Summary

Theatre of the oppressed combines analysis and practice, making it indispensable to those interested in dramatic theory as well as performance technique.

Uniform Title

Teatro del oprimido y otras poéticas políticas. English

Alternative Title

• Teatro del oprimido y otras poéticas políticas.
• Theater of the oppressed

Subject

Theater > Political aspects

Note

• Translation of Teatro del oprimido y otras poéticas políticas.
• Originally published: New York : Urizen Books, 1979.

Language (note)

• Translated from the original Spanish.

Contents

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 -- Machiavelli and the poetics of virtù: The feudal abstraction ; The bourgeois concretion ; Machiavelli and Mandragola ; Modern reductions of virtu -- 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 -- Poetics of the oppressed: Experiments with the people's theater in Peru ; Conclusion: "spectator," a bad word! -- Development of the Arena Theater of São Paulo: Need for the "joker" ; Goals of the "joker" ; Structures of the "joker."

Call Number

MWE 87-1949

ISBN

• 0930452496
• 9780930452490

OCLC

12961497

Author

Boal, Augusto.

Title

Theatre of the oppressed / Augusto Boal ; translated by Charles A. & Maria-Odilia Leal McBride.

Imprint

New York : Theatre Communications Group, 1985.

Edition

1st TCG ed.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Language

Translated from the original Spanish.

Research Call Number

MWE 87-1949