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title	:	The Show and the Gaze of Theatre : A European Perspective Studies in Theatre History and Culture
author	:	Fischer-Lichte, Erika.; Riley, Jo.
publisher	:	University of Iowa Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0877456089
print isbn13	:	9780877456087
ebook isbn13	:	9781587290633
language	:	English
subject	Theater--Philosophy, Intercultural communication.
publication date	:	1997
lcc	:	PN2039.F57 1997eb
ddc	:	792/.01
subject	:	Theater--Philosophy, Intercultural communication.

Page i The Show and the Gaze of Theatre

Page ii Studies in Theatre History and Culture Edited by Thomas Postlewait

Page iii The Show and the Gaze of Theatre A European Perspective Erika Fischer-Lichte UNIVERSITY OF IOWA PRESS IOWA CITY

Page iv University of Iowa Press Iowa City 52242 Copyright 1997 by the University of Iowa Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Design by Richard Hendel http://www.uiowa.edu/~uipress No part of this book may be reproduced or used in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, without permission in writing from the publisher. All reasonable steps have been taken to contact copyright holders of material used in this book. The publisher would be pleased to make suitable arrangements with any whom it has not been possible to reach. Printed on acid-free paper Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Fischer-Lichte, Erika. The show and the gaze of theatre: a European perspective / by Erika Fischer-Lichte p. cm.(Studies in theatre history and culture) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-87745-607-0, ISBN 0-87745-608-9 (paper) I. TheaterPhilosophy. 2. Intercultural communication. I. Title. II. Series. PN2039.F57 1997 792'.01dc21 97-24047 97 98 99 00 01 C 5 4 3 2 1 97 98 99 00 01 P 5 4 3 2 1

Page v For sorrow's eye, glazed with blinding tears, Divides one thing to many objects, Like perspectives which, rightly gaz'd upon, Show nothing but confusioneye'd awry, Distinguish form. Richard II, act 2, scene 1, ll. 1620

Page vii CONTENTS Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Theatre Studies from a European Perspective 1 Part I: Theatre as Culture Theatre and the Civilizing Process: An Approach to the History of Acting 25 Discovering the Spectator: Changes to the Paradigm of Theatre in the Twentieth Century 41 From Theatre to Theatricality: How to Construct Reality 61 What Are the Rules of the Game? Some Remarks on The Yellow Jacket 73 The Aesthetics of Disruption: German Theatre in the Age of the Media 91 Part II: Theatre Cross-Culture In Search of a New Theatre: Retheatricalization as Productive Reception of Far Eastern Theatre 115 Familiar and Foreign Theatres: The Intercultural Trend in Contemporary Theatre 133 Changing Theatrical Codes: Toward a Semiotics of Intercultural Performance 147 Intercultural Aspects in Postmodern Theatre: The Japanese Version of Chekhov's Three Sisters 158

Page viii Part III: In the Eyes of Theatre All the World's a Stage: The Theatrical Metaphor in the Baroque and Postmodernism 187 Passage to the Realm of Shadows: Robert Wilson's King Lear in Frankfurt 200 Returning the Gaze: Between Cultural Performance and Performance Art 218 Performance Art and Ritual: Bodies in Performance 233 Part IV: Theatre and Theory Avant-garde and Postmodernism: Theatre between Cultural Crisis and Cultural Change 261 Walter Benjamin's "Allegory" 275 Signs of Identity: The Dramatic Character as "Name" and "Body" 290 The Quest for Meaning

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