Theatre& Feeling explores the idea that, for many people, theatre is a passion. It provides an intellectual framework for the range of emotional experience engendered by the theatre, bringing the issue of theatrical feeling into focus as both a research object and a method in Theatre Studies.

Theatre & Feeling explores the idea that, for many people, theatre is a passion. It provides an intellectual framework for the range of emotional experience engendered by the theatre, bringing the issue of theatrical feeling into focus as both a research object and a method in Theatre Studies.

Draws on a range of examples from the Enlightenment to the present day to illustrate the centrality of feeling and theatre
A provocative and accessible way into this important topicPart of the successful and innovative Theatre And series

Autorentext

Anne Bogart, Erin Hurley

Inhalt

Foreword; Anne Bogart.- Theatre and Feeling.- Types of Feeling.- Feeling as the Raison d'être of Theatre: Connections to the Body and Brain.- The Purpose of Theatre and its Form .- Social Value and Social Work.- Profiting from Feeling-Work.- Feeling's Professional Significance: Acting .- Further Reading.