Automata and Mimesis on the Stage of Theatre History

1. Introduction
Kara Reilly

2. Iconoclasm and Automata
Kara Reilly

3. Descartes’s Mimetic Faculty
Kara Reilly

4. From Aristocrats to Autocrats: The Elite as Automata
Kara Reilly

5. Olympia’s Legacy
Kara Reilly

6. From Automata to Automation: The Birth of the Robot in R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots)
Kara Reilly

7. Epilogue
Kara Reilly

Avainsanat: Cultural and Media Studies, Performing Arts, Theatre History, Theatre and Performance Studies