The Drama of the Rite: Worship, Liturgy and Theatre Performance

ISBN-13: 9781845193065 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 113 str.

Roger Grainger

Opis

"The Drama of the Rite" brings home the dramatic identity of ritual and the religious significance of all kinds of theatre. This book explores the characteristics of liturgical experience concentration, single mindedness, intentionality, emotional catharsis, and, above all, the quality of encounter on which personal environment depends an exploration that leads into the dramatic shape underlying both liturgy and theatre, that of the rite of passage itself. Examples are given of such rites, understood from the point of view of their theatrical nature and purpose, by looking at liturgical structure from a point of view that has largely been neglected by scholars, although its relevance emerges with striking force, as the drama of the incursion of the divine into human lives. Many have spoken and written of the drama of religious ritual and been content to leave it at that, however, author Roger Grainger takes a cliche and examines the often misunderstood truth it expresses."