Acting: The Quintessence of Theatricality

• Published in: SubStance Vol. 31; no. 2/3; pp. 110 - 124
• Main Author: Rozik, Eli
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Baltimore University of Wisconsin Press 01.01.2002; Johns Hopkins University Press
• Subjects: Acting; Actors; Drama; Graphics; Indexicality; Language; Natural language; Necessary conditions; Performing artists; Referents; Semiotic signs; Semiotics; Signs; Theater; Theater semiotics; Theatrical costumes; Theatricality and the Body

The conclusions should be, therefore, not that theatrical signs are changeable or versatile, but that the same referent can be represented and evoked by different signs. [...]since his examples contradict the principle of similarity on the material level as suggested above, we may claim that these a...