The Theatre of Imagining A Cultural History of Imagination in the Mind and on the Stage /

• Main Author: Kallenbach, Ulla (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Performing arts.; Theater-History.; Philosophy of mind.; Culture-Study and teaching.; Performing Arts.; Theatre History.; Philosophy of Mind.; Cultural Theory.

This book is the first comprehensive analysis of the fascinating and strikingly diverse history of imagination in the context of theatre and drama. Key questions that the book explores are: How do spectators engage with the drama in performance, and how does the historical context influence the dram...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. The Mirror and the Messenger
• 3. Corruption or Perfection? The Precariousness of the Early Modern Imagination
• 4. Macbeth: A Dramaturgy of Deceit
• 5. From Mirror to Lamp
• 6. The Disenchantment of the Idealist Imagination
• 7. A Doll's House - Performing the Cultural Imaginary
• 8. The Late Modern Re-Imagining Imagination
• 9. The Killer - The Interplay of Absence and Presence
• 10. Towards a Dramaturgy of Physicalization and Imagination.