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| Introducing Theories of Performance | |
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| Theory in Perspective: Can You See the Forest for the Trees? | |
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| What Is Theory? | |
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| Theory Questions: What? Why? How? | |
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| Kinds of Theory Questions | |
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| Assumptions about How Language Operates in Theory | |
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| Two Models of Communication | |
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| Performance as a Communicative Form | |
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| Assumptions about Performance: Mimesis, Poiesis, and Kinesis | |
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| Performance as a Key Term | |
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| Definitions of Performance | |
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| Claims about Performance: Constitutive, Epistemic, and Critical | |
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| Rethinking Theory and Performance | |
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| Constituting Performance | |
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| Theory in Perspective: What Makes a Performance? | |
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| The "Nature" of Performance | |
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| Constituting Performance through Framing | |
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| Constituting the Performance Frame through Keying | |
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| Constituting Performance through the Performer | |
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| Constituting Performance through Audience | |
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| Rethinking Performance | |
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| Performing Texts | |
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| Theory in Perspective: What Is a Text? | |
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| Humans and Symbol Use: Text Me Later. OK? | |
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| From Orality to the Page to the Screen | |
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| Interpreting the World as "Text" | |
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| When Text Meets Performance | |
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| Drama, Script, Theater, and Performance | |
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| Assumptions about Texts: Canon, Textuality, and Materiality | |
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| Interpreting Texts | |
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| Text Versus Performance | |
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| Rethinking Texts | |
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| Performing Drama | |
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| Theory in Perspective: How Is the World a Stage? | |
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| The Drama of a Roller Coaster Ride | |
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| Reigning Metaphor: Life as Drama | |
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| What Is Aristotelian Drama? | |
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| Audience and Dramatic Form | |
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| Kenneth Burke's Dramatism: Life Is Drama | |
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| Performing Tragic and Comic Attitudes | |
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| From Dramatism to Social Drama | |
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| Analyzing Social Dramas | |
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| Social Drama: Raw Material for Performances | |
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| Rethinking Drama | |
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| Performing Culture | |
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| Theory in Perspective: How Do Cultures Perform? | |
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| What Is Culture? | |
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| Approaches to Studying Culture | |
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| From Studying "Man" to Theorizing Movement and Play | |
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| Rites of Passage: Moving through Culture | |
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| Homo Ludens/Playing Man | |
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| Characteristics of Ritual | |
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| Rituals Are Performed | |
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| From Great Tradition to Cultural Performance | |
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| The "Performance Turn" in Study of Culture | |
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| Performing History | |
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| Performing Others | |
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| Rethinking Culture | |
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| Performing Social Roles | |
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| Theory in Perspective: Who Am I? | |
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| Don't Play Games with Me! | |
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| "What's Wrong?" | |
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| "What's Right?" | |
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| Teams: Performing Together | |
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| Regions: Performing Spaces | |
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| When Good Performances Go Bad | |
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| Impression Management | |
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| Misrepresentation | |
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| Role Distance and Discrepant Roles | |
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| Stigmas and "Spoiled" Identities | |
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| Passing Genders and Races | |
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| Performing Disability | |
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| Rethinking Social Roles | |
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| Performing Identity | |
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| Theory in Perspective: How Am I a Subject? | |
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| Do Social Roles Assume a Foundational Self? | |
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| Performativity's Rejections and Projects | |
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| Identity Constitution as Material and Historical | |
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| A Strategy for Identity Critique | |
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| From Philosophy to Speech Act to Laws | |
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| A Political Practice of Identity | |
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| Rethinking Identity | |
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| Performing Resistance | |
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| Theory in Perspective: How Can Performance Change the World? | |
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| From Aristotle to Postmodernism | |
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| Bertolt Brecht on Performing Resistance | |
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| Alienation Effects of Epic Theater | |
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| Brechtian Techniques as Critical Lenses | |
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| From Brecht to Boal | |
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| Why Do People Take to the Streets? Models of Protest | |
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| Public Events through an Aristotelian Lens | |
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| Carnival and Protest | |
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| From Traditional to Radical Dramaturgy | |
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| Analyzing Protest Events as Performances | |
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| The Body Politic: How Do Bodies Intervene? | |
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| Resistance in Everyday Life: Foucault's Productive Power | |
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| Resistance in Everyday Life: de Certeau's Strategies and Tactics | |
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| Rethinking Resistance | |
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| Performing Technologies | |
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| Performing Technology | |
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| Theory in Perspective: What Exists? | |
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| Caveat Emptor: Buyer Beware of Old and New | |
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| What Is Technology? Extending Human Bodies and Powers | |
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| From Deus ex Machina to Flash Mobs: Extending, Enabling, and Accessing Performance | |
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| Performance Presence: An Ontology | |
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| Six Types of Theatrical Presence | |
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| Losing the Aura of Presence | |
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| Simulacra: There Is No Original | |
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| Cyborg Bodies: Human and Machine | |
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| Performing Cyborgs | |
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| Musical Performance: Is it Live or Is It Memorex? | |
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| Interactivity: From "Poke and See," Cyberpoetry, to Computer Art Environments | |
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| Reach Out and Perform Someone: Five Kinds of Mediated Presence | |
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| Rethinking Technologies | |
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| References | |