Theatre of the Oppressed
3rd Edition
Published on 20. August 2001
Book
Hardback
232 pages
978-0-7453-1658-1 (ISBN)
Description
In this classic work on radical drama, Augusto Boal exposes the machinations that the ruling classes exercised on theatre to take control out of the hands of ordinary citizens. He shows how Brechtian and Marxian drama reverses this trend.
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Series
Edition
3rd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 215 mm
Width: 135 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-7453-1658-1 (9780745316581)
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Augusto Boal
Theatre of the Oppressed
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08/2008
3rd Edition
Pluto Press
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Augusto Boal
Theatre of the Oppressed
Book
12/1991
Pluto Press
€126.28
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Content
Aristotle's coercive system of tragedy; Machiavelli and the "Poetics of Virtu"; Hegel and Brecht - the character as subject or the character as object?; poetics of the oppressed; development of the Arena Theatre of Sao Paulo.