Function of Drama Flashcards
1
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Aristotle
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“instinct of imitation”
2
Q
Stotlje
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‘socio-cultural reflections [which] mirror, comment upon, and influence the social order’
3
Q
Belsey
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Drama engages with the contemporary ‘meanings in circulation’
4
Q
Turner
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Through drama, audiences ‘come to know themselves better’ [anthropologist]
5
Q
Arendt
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Tragedies are generated at ‘a time of revolutionary movement’
6
Q
Williams
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Tragedy explores the ‘complicated and contradictory emergence of new moral and metaphysical ideas’
7
Q
Shepard
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Through the theatre ‘societies negotiate what the body does and what it means’
