Table of Contents:
  • The text/performance split across the analytic/continental divide / Julia A. Walker
  • Kenneth Burke : theater, philosophy, and the limits of performance / Martin Puchner
  • Critical realism and performance strategies / Tobin Nellhaus
  • Humanoid boogie : reflections on robotic performance / Philip Auslander
  • Philosophy and drama : performance, interpretation, and intentionality / Noël Carroll
  • Embodiment and presence : the ontology of presence reconsidered / Suzanne M. Jaeger
  • Presence / Jon Erickson
  • Technique / Robert P. Crease and John Lutterbie
  • Presenting objects, presenting things / Alice Rayner
  • Infiction and outfiction : the role of fiction in theatrical performance / David Z. Saltz
  • Understanding plays / James R. Hamilton
  • Perception, action, and identification in the theater / Bence Nanay
  • Empathy and theater / David Krasner
  • The voice of blackness : the Black arts movement and logocentrism / Mike Sell
  • Theatricality, convention, and the principle of charity / Michael L. Quinn.