REFLECTIONS ON “DRAMA” AND “THEATRE” AGAINST THE BACKGROUND OF LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICAL THINKING
REFLECTIONS ON “DRAMA” AND “THEATRE” AGAINST THE BACKGROUND OF LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICAL THINKING

Summary/Abstract: This paper aims to introduce several arguments about the nature of ”drama” and ”theater” in light of the classical tradition of literary criticism, as well as later developments such as psychoanalysis and cultural studies. The relationship between the two concepts has vastly shaped the discussion and inquiry into the origin, purpose, specificity, difference and impact of theater on an individual and the society he belongs to. Particularly, reflection on gesture in theater, as mediator and creator of sense, may be introduced through specifying several terms that set up the conceptual territory of such problematics: before analyzing gesture and its implications, one must take into account the space framed by two key terms, namely “drama” and “theater”, as present in a vast critical literature in the history of theater, as theory and practice.

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