The player's passion : studies in the science of acting /
Joseph R. Roach.
- 255 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Theater--theory, text, performance .
- Theater--theory/text/performance. .
Originally published: Newark : University of Delaware Press ; London : Associated University Presses, c1985.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Changeling Proteus : rhetoric and the passions in the seventeenth century -- 2. Nature still, but nature mechanized -- 3. Vitalism and the crisis of sensibility -- 4. Diderot -- 5. Second nature : mechanism and organicism from Goethe to Lewes -- 6. The Paradoxe as paradigm : the structure of a Russian revolution -- Epilogue : The vitalist twilight