Como actores en el gran teatro del mundo = Like actors in the great theatre of the world
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The comparison of singular life and society to a
play is a recurring metaphor. In this article, I am
going to talk about some ramifications of this
idea, with a more synchronic first act. It will set
the guidelines of the whole, along with a theory of
the change from the ritualistic to the performative,
formulated by anthropologist Victor Turner and
aimed to explain social relations. After that,
diachronically, there will be a second act that
explains some of the most relevant historical
variations of that human intuition that sees the
universe as a theatrical representation. For that,
I will use scenes featuring Greek antiquity, the
hermetic Renaissance, the baroque Theatrum
mundi and cinematographic post-modernism