Renaissance Studies Commons^™

Poetic Discourse And Performance Text: Toward A Semiotics Of The Comedia, Edward H. Friedman

Quidditas

"... to read the sign is not only to understand its function in the aesthetic or fictional ensemble to the exclusion of the outside world, it is to seek the link between the sign and the referer, the aesthetic and the political, delirium and deliverance."

Patrice Pavis, Languages of the Stage