The Problems of Viewing Performance

Michael Y. Bennett is an Associate Professor of English and Affiliated Faculty in Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. He is the author or editor of a dozen books in the fields of theatre and performance studies and the philosophy of theatre.

Foreword by David Krasner; Introduction Viewing and Understanding Performance: In Light of Other Minds; PART I; Chapter 1 A Public Experience: But is it Shared?; Chapter 2 Knowledge, (Dis)Agreement, and Other Minds; Chapter 3 A Public Reality of One’s Own; PART II; Chapter 4 Epistemic Problems—Hamlet and Horatio’s "Hamlet"… in Light of Other Minds; Chapter 5 Temporal-Spatial Problems—Border Progressions and Locating the Self: Mobility and Immobility in Le Jeu de Saint Nicolas and The Castle of Perseverance; Chapter 6 Contextual Problems—Witting-and-Unwitting Contexts: Translating Public and Private Experience in Tony Kushner’s Homebody/Kabul; Chapter 7 Lingual Problems—(Private and Public) Performances of the Self: The Performance of Language and the Self in Susan Jahoda’s Flight Patterns; (POST/TRANS)SCRIPT "What do you Feel?"… Now By Chris Hosea and Lillian Tong; Chapter 8 Emotional Problems—Breathing in Maria Irene Fornes’ "sharper air" in her "PAJ Plays"; Conclusion "Viewing… Or, Turning Away: Upending the ‘Gaze,’ Upending the Subject"