By Means of Performance: Intercultural Studies of Theatre and Ritual (Paperback)

Richard Schechner; Willa Appel
Cambridge University Press
 9780521339155
0-521-33915-4

The field of performance studies covers all kinds of performance behavior in all contexts. This volume investigates performance behavior in a variety of circumstances and cultures. The contributors consider.

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such issues as the relationship between training and the finished performance; whether performance behavior is universal or culturally specific; and the relationships among ritual and aesthetics, popular entertainment and religion, and sports and theater and dance.