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Timotheus

Chapter 1: TIMOTHEUS OR The Future of the Theatre
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A first-person narrator describes visiting a future national theatre whose architecture and seating are engineered to place audiences in a suggestible posture while a central director, called the fairfusser, stages curated 'clutches'—performances assembled from light, shadow, voice, scent and rhythm. These sensory sequences project apparitions on a domed stage and orchestrate collective emotional responses, shifting from despair to pity, joy and generosity. The account treats drama as a technique for summoning specific states of being, questions simple genre labels, and reflects on the ethical and biological framing of emotion within a technologically mediated theatrical culture.

TIMOTHEUS

TIMOTHEUS
OR
The Future of the
Theatre

BONAMY DOBREE
Author of “Restoration Comedy 1660–1720,”
“Histriophone,” “Essays in Biography”

Even the powerful mind of Dr. Johnson seemed foiled by futurity.”—Boswell.

New York
E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY
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