The Necessity of Theater —— The Art of Watching and Being Watched

----- 剧场的必要性：观察和被观察的艺术

ISBN: 9780195332001 出版年：2008 页码：272 Woodruff, Paul Oxford University Press

What is unique and essential about theater? What separates it from other arts? Do we need "theater" in some fundamental way? The art of theater, as Paul Woodruff says in this elegant and unique book, is as necessary - and as powerful -- as language itself. Defining theater broadly, including sporting events and social rituals, he treats traditional theater as only one possibility in an art that-at its most powerful-can change lives and (as some peoples believe) bring a divine presence to earth.