On Ritual
Subtitle: Performance Research (Performance Research , Vol 3, No 3)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: March 16, 1999
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780415182034
First sentence: Everyone knows the theatre originated out of ritual; the textbooks tell us so: 'The origins of theatre go back far into the past, to the religious rites of the earliest communities' (Hartnoll 1968: 7).