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The Performer examines the move from open stages to digital screens

The arc of human progress must be looked at through changes in civility, which is much larger than changes in culture

The Performer: Art, Life, Politics
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The Performer: Art, Life, Politics

Saurabh Modi

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The Performer: Art, Life, Politics
Author:  Richard Sennett
Publisher: Allen Lane
Pages: 256
Price: Rs 1,396
  “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.” If we start looking at ourselves as characters who perform, and observe where the stage is, a lot more can start to make sense. Richard Sennett in the book The Performer: Art, Life, Politics borrows the observation Shakespeare’s character “the melancholy Jaques” makes in the play As you Like It,  to knit a thread of what a performance is across the thread of what the stage to perform looks like. The many knits finally turn

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