Theatre and The Body

Notes

Drawing on many examples from contemporary performance, this book is a provocative starting point for understanding the surprisingly complex relationship between theatre and the body. Foreword by Marina Abramovic.

Artist / Author	Colette Conroy
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN	978-0230205437
Reference	P2883
Date	2010
Type	Publication

Keywords

audience body dualism Judith Butler mind-body problem movement phenomenology Rene Descartes representation Sarah Bernhardt Sigmund Freud spectatorship theory

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