The Art of Theater

Identifies the elements that make a performance a work of art
Looks at the competing views of the text-performance relationships
An important and original contribution to the aesthetics and philosophy of theater

About the Author

James R. Hamilton is a member of the Philosophy Department at Kansas State University. His research is in aesthetics, focusing on theater. He has published articles in the British Journal of Aesthetics, the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, and the Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, has entries in the Oxford Encyclopedia of Aesthetics and the Routledge Companion to Aesthetics, and has received NEH and Big XII Fellowships.

Features

Argues for the recognition of theatrical performance, not just dramatic writing, as an art form
Identifies the elements that make a performance a work of art
Looks at the competing views of the text-performance relationships
An important and original contribution to the aesthetics and philosophy of theater

Series

New Directions in Aesthetics

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