Philology and Performing Arts

How to establish a dialogue between Philology, which traditionally deals with
written texts, and the "performing arts" – theatre, opera, cinema, radio drama
– in which the text is just the shadow of a living, fleeting, ephemeral work
of art which is called “the performance”?
This volume invites to bridge the traditional gap between the author and the
scribes, which means between the “original text” and the “copies” in order
deal with more complex situations, in which the performer, the screenwriter,
or the director, assume a very central role as intermediary author or co-
author in the dynamic process of creating and re-creating works.