The Idea of the Actor: Drama and the Ethics of Performance (Princeton Legacy Library) - Hardcover

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Analyzing the relationship between dramatic action and the controversial art of acting, William Worthen demonstrates that what it means to act, to be an actor, and to communicate through acting embodies both an ethics of acting and a poetics of drama.

Originally published in 1984.

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