What Theater Makes
What Theater Makes
The second chapter offers an account of what it is to be a particular theater piece—a question that belongs to ontology. A theater piece may be performed many times, so it is not identical to a particular performance; performances of plays are based on texts, but a text is not a theater piece because, by itself, it has nothing to do with watching and being watched. In general, a play is the particular play that it is because of the characters and plot that belong to it. That is why Shakespeare's Hamlet can have many versions and still be the same piece; but Anouilh's version of Antigone is not the same piece of theater as is Sophocles', owing to substantial differences in plot and character.
Keywords: ontology, theater piece, Hamlet, Antigone, character, plot, performance, text, a play
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