Theater arts as the subject of comparative aesthetics

Abstract

In this paper we will show how the new theoretical thought about theater, since the beginning of the last century and the establishment of theatrology as the academic discipline and field of research, is being based on the comparative aesthetic perspective - on the distinction between different arts on the one hand and the identification of the transcultural foundation of theater arts on the other. Following the analyses of examples of contemporary theatre and the insights that emerge from them, we will demonstrate how the questions that rise out of theatrical practice and theory resonate with the issues addressed in the field aesthetics, not only the ones about artistic creation, art or its reception.