Introduction: Four elements: a new theory for the theater -- Part I. Life and death -- 1. Mortality salience: awareness of death -- Part II. A brief history -- 2. Why we need a system -- 3. Aristotle, Diderot, Delsarte, & Fey -- 4. The move toward truth -- 5. Beyond Stanislavski: the post-moderns -- Part III. The four elements -- 6. Shape -- 7. Action -- 8. Transaction -- 9. Surrender -- 10. Putting it all together -- Part IV. Plays -- 11. Death of a salesman -- 12. Ibsen's Heroic women: Hedda and Nora -- 13. Chekhov's people: a search for meaning -- 14. Hamlet: gods and ghosts -- 15. The existential actor.
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