Dramatic Theories of Voice in the Twentieth Century
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

xi

Dramatic Theories of Voice: An Introduction

1

Definitions

4

The Eye and the Ear

6

Mediation, Language, and Thought

11

Theatre History and Mediation

15

The Voice, Mediation, and the Twentieth Century

17

Chapter Outline

21

Chapter 1: Vocal Origins

25

Human Evolution and the Voice

28

Paleoanthropological Theories of Voice

37

A Comprehensive Theory of Voice

51

Conclusion

63

Chapter 2: The Voice in Phenomenology
and Existentialism

67

Edmund Husserl

71

Martin Heidegger

81

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

92

Jean-Paul Sartre

100

Conclusion

104

Chapter 3: The Voice in Theatres of Presence

107

Antonin Artaud

112

Jerzy Grotowski

115

Peter Brook

121

Richard Schechner

123

Conclusion

126