Dramatic Theatre
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Epic Theatre
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| Plot |
Narrative |
| Implicates the spectator in a stage situation |
Turns the spectator into an observer but |
| Wears down |
arouses his capacity for action |
| Provides him with sensations |
Forces him to take decisions |
| Experience |
Picture of the world |
| The spectator is involved in something |
He is made to face something |
| Suggestion |
Argument |
| Instinctive feelings are preserved |
Brought to the point of recognition |
| The spectator is in the thick of it, shares the experience |
The spectator stands outside, studies |
| The human being is taken for granted |
The human being is the object of inquiry |
| He is unalterable |
He is alterable and able to alter |
| Eyes on the finish |
Eyes on the course |
| One scene makes another |
Each scene for itself |
| Linear development |
In curves |
| Evolutionary determinism |
Jumps |
| Man as a fixed point |
Man as a process |
| Thought determines being |
Social being determines thought |
| Feeling |
Reason |