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Tables of Contents for Play Is Play
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction: What is the ``Epic'' Theater?
4
16
Conceptional Foundations
20
10
Impenetrable World
20
2
Unchangeable World as a Stage
22
2
Non-Teachable Audience
24
3
Powerlessness of the Poetry
27
3
The Theatrical versus the Dramatic
30
20
Theatrical Communication versus Dramatic Communication
32
2
Theatrical Presentation versus Dramatic Representation
34
4
Theatrical Illusion versus Dramatic Illusion
38
12
The Play is Just a Play
50
40
Performative Playfulness
51
5
The Lyric, Poetical and Musical
56
7
Prologue or Play Containing Play
63
4
Intermezzo
67
2
Author and Theatrical Commentator
69
7
``Dramatic'' Discourses and Scenes ad spectatores
76
9
Reference to Nondramatic Realities
85
5
Introduction versus ``Self''-Introduction
90
30
Introduction of the Play and Characters
90
22
``Self''-Introductions of Dramatic Characters
112
8
Theater Remains Theater
120
15
Stage Remains Stage
120
5
Open Theatrical Pretense in Acting
125
10
Manipulation of Time in ``Epic'' Plays
135
18
Dramatic Time versus Theatrical Time
136
2
Time in Prologue and Time in Play
138
3
Interruption of Dramatic Time by Theatrical Time
141
2
Acted Time versus Narrated Time
143
2
Time Traveling of Dramatic Characters
145
5
Anachronism in Stage Property and Costume
150
3
Conclusion
153
5
References
158
10
Index
168