Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-298).
Book Cover; Title; Contents; Author's note; Acknowledgements; Introduction: The fan and the web; Approaches; Actuals; Drama, script, theater, and performance; From ritual to theater and back: the efficacy-entertainment braid; Toward a poetics of performance; Selective inattention; Ethology and theater; Magnitudes of performance; References; Index.
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This cogent and provocative compilation of essays is now a classic text for students of the emergent discipline of performance studies.