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Notes

1. This is said with caution. Philip Auslander's edited volumes (2003) offer a more detailed approach to the issues and history of performance than Bial's (2004) and, for some, Marvin Carlson's text (2003 [1996]) is still the most coherent and satisfying an introduction to performance, while Jon McKenzie's (2001), for example, is the most innovative.

2. Kershaw says of Schechner's equivalent: ‘The usual flow of reading is usurped by typological objects, like hurdles on a racetrack or weirs on a river. Quite an effort of will is needed to leap or surf over them, or to read them’ (Kershaw 2006, 37).