Erika Fischer-Lichte is university professor of theatre research at the Free University of Berlin, and president of the International Federation of Theatre Research. Her numerous publications include The Show and the Gaze of Theatre. A European Perspective, 1997.

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• Introduction; Chapter 1 Ritual theatre; Chapter 2 Theatrum vitae humanae; Chapter 3 The rise of the middle classes and the theatre of illusion; Chapter 4 Dramatising the identity crisis; Chapter 5 Theatre of the ‘new’ man;

Erika Fischer-Lichte is university professor of theatre research at the Free University of Berlin, and president of the International Federation of Theatre Research. Her numerous publications include The Show and the Gaze of Theatre. A European Perspective, 1997.

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• Introduction; Chapter 1 Ritual theatre; Chapter 2 Theatrum vitae humanae; Chapter 3 The rise of the middle classes and the theatre of illusion; Chapter 4 Dramatising the identity crisis; Chapter 5 Theatre of the ‘new’ man;

Erika Fischer-Lichte is university professor of theatre research at the Free University of Berlin, and president of the International Federation of Theatre Research. Her numerous publications include The Show and the Gaze of Theatre. A European Perspective, 1997.

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• Introduction; Chapter 1 Ritual theatre; Chapter 2 Theatrum vitae humanae; Chapter 3 The rise of the middle classes and the theatre of illusion; Chapter 4 Dramatising the identity crisis; Chapter 5 Theatre of the ‘new’ man;