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At first sight, Theodor W. Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory (1970) does not treat the subject of theatre or theatricality in great depth. Quite the contrary: except for his analysis of the two important dramatists Samuel Beckett and Bertolt Brecht, he seldom writes about theatre at all.1 When he does, Adorno mostly ignores the specific features of the theatrical situation and does not treat it as an independent art form, but merely as subordinated to the dramatic text.
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Nowak, A. (2014). On the Theatricality of Art. In: Daddario, W., Gritzner, K. (eds) Adorno and Performance. Performance Philosophy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137429889_10
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