Anonymous ID: 1a98c9 Feb. 4, 2022, 1:37 p.m. No.15546543   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6568 >>6625

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Around 380 B.C. Plato became the first to challenge theater in the ancient world. Although his views expressed in The Republic were radical, they were aimed primarily at the concept of theater (and other mimetic arts). He did not encourage hostility towards the artists or their performances. For Plato, theater was philosophically undesirable, it was simply a lie. It was bad for society because it engaged the sympathies of the audience and so might make people less thoughtful. Furthermore, the representation of ignoble actions on the stage could lead the actors and the audience to behave badly themselves.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antitheatricality