List of contributors

Editors' acknowledgments

Performance and authenticity

Salim Kemal

Ivan Gaskell

PART I Performance, religion, and authenticity

The Poetics of performance: the necessity of spectacle, music, and dance in Aristotelian tragedy

Gregory Scott

The ``confessing animal'' on stage: authenticity, asceticism, and the constant ``inconstancie'' of Elizabethan character

Peter Iver Kaufman

Art, religion, and the hermeneutics of authenticity

Nicholas Davey

PART II Understanding, performance, and authenticity

Understanding music

Michael Tanner

Understanding music

Malcolm Budd

Musical performance as analytical communication

Fred Everett Maus

Performance authenticity: possible, practical, virtuous

Stan Godlovitch

Why is it impossible in language to articulate the meaning of a work of music?

Joseph J. Kockelmans

PART III Authenticity, poetry, and performance

Inauthenticity, insincerity, and poetry

Alex Neill

Poetry's oral stage

Peter Middleton

True stories: Spalding Gray and the authenticities of performance

Henry M. Sayre

Index