The mystery of the play experience / J.L. Styan -- Self-referring artifacts / Anna Whiteside -- Much ado about doing things with words (and other means) / Keir Elam -- Stage codes / Michael Issacharoff -- Decoding Mnouchkine's Shakespeare / Jean Alter -- From text to performance / Patrice Pavas -- A medieval prescription for performance / Robin F. Jones -- Performance orientations in ritual theatre / Richard Schechner -- Postscript or pinch of salt / Michael Issacharoff
Notes
"Essays ... originally written for presentation at an international Symposium on the Theory and Practice of Performance ("Scène, signe, spectacle"), held under the auspices of the Faculty of Arts and the French Department of the University of Western Ontario in April 1983"--Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-151) and index
