Table of Contents:
  • New Beginnings
  • pt. I. Theatrical Event: Foundations. 1. Approaching the Theatrical Event: The Influence of Semiotics and Hermeneutics on European Theatre Studies. 2. Theatre or Performance or Untitled Event? Some Comments on the Conceptualization of the Object of Our Studies. 3. Reacting to Actions: Concepts of Theatricality. 4. Theatrical Events Revisited: Playing Culture and the Historiography of Early Nordic Theatre. 5. Culture as Human Encounter: Theatrical Communication as Model of Cultural Events
  • pt. II. Theatrical Event: Applications. 6. Sarah Bernhardt in Phenomenological Perspective: To Study a Living Legend. 7. Mistero Buffo, 1999: Dario Fo's Intercultural Transfer to Sweden.