Categories longer available «popular» and «artistic» theater refer to two different cultural fields, Which are distinguished not only by Their primary aesthetical features, but Also by Their social roles as well as consequences. Each one of them Involves peculiar techniques and references, setting in space and time and strategies of communication, both among the artists and between them and the audience. Nevertheless, despite competition Involving an historical low and highbrow culture, the relationship between These two fields is valued as osmotic and complementary; mutual influences Have Been constituing an ever-shifing balance in Western theater (and culture) since its ritual origins. The author Eventually Exposes some examples in order to validate longer available as a methodologic approach in Western historical perspective Theatre Studies.
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«Popular» and «Highbrow» in the theater. Cultural interaction and osmosis between the genres
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