A Cultural History of Theatre in the Age of Empire by Marx Peter;

Author:Marx, Peter; [Marx, Peter W.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2019-08-02T00:00:00+00:00

The overall transformation in the identity and definition of drama –incorporating, as it now did, pantomime, dance, ritual, indeed any performance or ‘representation by action’ – challenged the sovereign place that the concept of mimesis had held in dramatic theory at least since Aristotle. Mimesis was, of course, still strongly present in primitive dramatic aesthetics as an originating principle (the reenactment of recent events in the heat of emotion), a utilitarian pursuit (one imitated the emu to call it to the hunt), and a magical practice (one imitated the totem to invoke its aid). But these acts seemed, in their ritual guises, to transcend mimesis. For primitive imitation contained an element of real embodiment: one did not merely imitate the god; one became the god.46

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