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BL
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1029416
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b783786
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| Uniform Title
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Teatro del oprimido y otras poéticas políticas.English
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| Main Entry
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Boal, Augusto.
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| Title & Author
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Theatre of the oppressed /\ Augusto Boal ; translated by Charles A. Maria-Odilia Leal McBride.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Theatre Communications Group,, 1985.
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xiv, 197 pages ;; 23 cm
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| ISBN
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0930452496
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: 9780930452490
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| Notes
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Originally published: New York : Urizen Books, 1979.
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Translation of Teatro del oprimido y otras poéticas políticas.
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| Contents
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Aristotle's coercive system of tragedy: Art imitates nature ; What is the meaning of imitation? ; What, then, is the purpose of art and science? ; Major arts and minor arts ; What does tragedy imitate? ; What is happiness? ; And what is virtue? ; Necessary characteristics of virtue ; The degrees of virtue ; What is justice? ; In what sense can theater function as an instrument for purification and intimidation? ; The ultimate aim of tragedy ; A short glossary of simple words ; How Aristotle's coercive system of tragedy functions ; Different types of conflict: hamartia and social ethos -- Machiavelli and the poetics of virtù: The feudal abstraction ; The bourgeois concretion ; Machiavelli and Mandragola ; Modern reductions of virtu -- Hegel and Brecht : the character as subject or the character as object?: The "epic" concept ; Types of poetry in Hegel ; Characteristics of dramatic poetry, still according to Hegel ; Freedom of the character-subject ; A word poorly chosen ; Does thought determine being (or vice versa)? ; Can man be changed? ; Conflict of wills or contradiction of needs? ; Empathy or what? emotion or reason? ; Catharsis and repose, or knowledge and action? ; How to interpret the new works? ; The rest does not count: they are minor formal differences between the three genres ; Empathy or osmosis -- Poetics of the oppressed: Experiments with the people's theater in Peru ; Conclusion: "spectator," a bad word! -- Development of the Arena Theater of São Paulo: Need for the "joker" ; Goals of the "joker" ; Structures of the "joker."
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| Abstract
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Theatre of the oppressed combines analysis and practice, making it indispensable to those interested in dramatic theory as well as performance technique.
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Theater-- Political aspects.
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Tragedy-- History and criticism.
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Theater-- Political aspects.
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Tragedy.
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Onderdrukking.
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Politiek theater.
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Volkstoneel.
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| Dewey Classification
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792/.01
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| LC Classification
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PN2051.B63613 1985
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| NLM classification
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24.13bcl
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| Parallel Title
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Theater of the oppressed
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