ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

FOREWORD by Marvin Carlson

INTRODUCTION Theatre and the Mirror of Nature

PART I Exposing the Problem and Proposing a Solution

1 Theatrical Names and Reference: Dialectical-Synecdochic Objects and "Re-Creation"

2 The World of the Play: Theatre as "Re-Creation"

PART II Applying the (Proposed) Solution to the Problems

3 "Liveness"?: The Presumption of Dramatic and Theatrical "Liveness"

4 Boundedness of (Fictional) Theatre to our (Real) World: Actor and Audience Co-Existence

5 Identity across "Possible Worlds": "The World Beyond" the Play

CONCLUSIONS

#1 "The Purpose of Playing": Why Go to the Theatre?

#2 Where the World of Theatre Ends: Performance Art

#3 Make-Believe

AFTERWORD by James R. Hamilton

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Michael Y. Bennett is Associate Professor of English and affiliated faculty in Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.