The Semiotics of Theater

By: Erika Fischer-Lichte

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Hardcover | 23 October 1992

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"The most thorough, systematic and convincing semiotics of the theater we have. . . . L]ike those of Eco, it is an important conceptual synthesis, and a bibliographical gold mine." --Modern Language Notes" . . . impresses with its thoroughness and the informed perspective of its author . . . " --Theatre Survey" . . . a classic text . . . " --Theatre Research International"Immediately accessible to readers with some knowledge of theater but not much of semiotics. . . . For anyone with an interest in theater production and performance, or indeed theater history." --Marvin Carlson

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Introduction	p. 1
Theater as a Cultural System	p. 1
The Theatrical Code	p. 10
The Theatrical Code as a System	p. 13
The Actor's Activities as a Sign	p. 18
Language-based Signs	p. 18
Linguistic Signs	p. 18
Paralinguistic Signs	p. 22
Kinesic Signs	p. 30
Mimic Signs	p. 30
Gestural Signs	p. 39
Proxemic Signs	p. 58
The Actor's Appearance as a Sign	p. 64
Mask	p. 68
Hairstyle	p. 77
Costume	p. 83
Spatial Signs	p. 93
Theatrical Space	p. 96
Stage Space	p. 101
Decoration	p. 102
Props	p. 107
Lighting	p. 110
Nonverbal Acoustic Signs	p. 115
Sounds	p. 117
Music	p. 120
Theater as a Semiotic System	p. 129
The Specificity of the Theatrical Sign	p. 129
Structure and Hierarchy	p. 131
Theatrical Communication	p. 136
"Theatricality"	p. 139
The Theatrical Gesture as a Norm	p. 143
The Gesture in Eighteenth-Century German Theater	p. 145
From System to Norm	p. 145
Problems of a Semiotic Historical Reconstruction	p. 147
The Gestural Code in Eighteenth-Century German Theater	p. 151
Preconditions: The Gestural Code of Baroque Theater	p. 151
Changes in the Baroque Gestural Code during the Early Enlightenment	p. 155
The Genesis of a Gestural Code for Bourgeois Illusionist Theater	p. 157
Gestures in Theater as a Representational System of Meaning in the Discourse of the Epoch	p. 166
The Theatrical Code as Speech	p. 171
Performance as Theatrical Text	p. 173
The Concept of the Theatrical Text	p. 173
On the Constitution of the Theatrical Text	p. 182
The Transformation of the Drama's Literary Text into the Theatrical Text of the Performance	p. 191
The Hermeneutics of the Theatrical Text	p. 206
The Process of Constituting Meaning and Sense as a Method of Analyzing Theatrical Texts	p. 218
Theory and Method	p. 218
Individual Analytic Procedures	p. 222
Recourse to the Theatrical Code as a System and a Norm	p. 222
Segmentation	p. 224
Selection and Combination	p. 230
Internal and External Recoding	p. 238
On Applying the Method	p. 245
Problems of Notation	p. 248
Concluding Remarks on the Kinesic Code of the German Theater of the 1970s	p. 254
Notes	p. 257
Bibliography	p. 319
Index of Names	p. 333
Index of Terms	p. 334
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