The Art of Theater

The Art of Theater argues for the recognition of theatrical performance as an art form independent of dramatic writing.

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• Identifies the elements that make a performance a work of art
  
• Looks at the competing views of the text-performance relationships
  
• An important and original contribution to the aesthetics and philosophy of theater

James R. Hamilton is a member of the Philosophy Department at Kansas State University. His research is in aesthetics, focusing on theater. He has published articles in the British Journal of Aesthetics, the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, and the Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, has entries in the Oxford Encyclopedia of Aesthetics and the Routledge Companion to Aesthetics, and has received NEH and Big XII Fellowships.