Kenneth Burke and Susanne K. Langer appear to see drama in radically different ways. Yet, both theorists believe that dramatic works contain the resources to elicit desired responses from particular audiences and that these resources reside in the formal expressiveness of the work. That formal expressiveness defines an ideal audience, one capable of responding to that which is most appropriate to the work
Kenneth Burke and Susanne K. Langer on drama and its audience
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