Theories of Theater

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"The purpose of this research is to examine theatre and drama as forces that attempt to present, explain, or comment by means of artistic forms on human experience in historical and cultural context. The plan of the research will be to show how this force has functioned as dramatic art, as symbolic form and as material for and of aesthetic and social commentary, from the classical to the modern period, with a view toward understanding how the operations of drama and theatre interpenetrate and/or affect the shape of shared belief and experience.
Undoubtedly, the Poetics is the first great and systematic articulation of dramatic theory, so important to subsequent dramatic theory that it is almost a given or a postulate whence virtually all succeeding Western aesthetics proceeds. Or to paraphrase what Whitehead famously says of Plato, one could say that.."

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