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In 1985 the Royal Dramatic Theatre (Dramaten) and the Working Life Centre (Arbetslivscentrum), both in Stockholm, began a series of seminars on the question of dialogue. That two such different institutions — the one devoted to producing theatre, the other to the analysis of the role and impact of technology on working life — should co-operate in this way may seem surprising, yet it is not really that strange. Theatre has always used technology for its own purposes, and, as a former Director of the Royal Dramatic Theatre, Erland Josefson, has pointed out, theatre has a 2000-year-old tradition of passing on knowledge and experience through dialogue.1
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Erland Josefson, ‘Theatre and Knowledge’, given as the opening speech of the conference ‘Culture, Language and Artificial Intelligence’, June 1988, published in Bo Göranzon and Magnus Florin (eds), Culture, Language and Artificial Intelligence (London, 1989 ).
Plato, Euthyphro, trs. Harold North Fowler, intro. by W. R. M. Lamb (London, 1914 ).
Plato, The Republic, trs. with an introduction by H. D. P. Lee ( Harmondsworth, Middx, 1955 ).
Plato, Gorgias, trs. W. R. M. Lamb (London, 1925 ).
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value, 2nd edn, ed. G. H. von Wright in collaboration with Heikki Nyman, trs. W. Peter Winch (Oxford, 1980 ) p. 16e.
Leif Zem, ‘Dialogen hos Shakespear’ (‘Dialogue in Shakespeare’), lecture delivered at Dramaten, 28 October 1985.
Allan Janik, ‘Offenbach: Konsten mellan Monolog och Dialog’ (‘Offenbach: Art between Monologue and Dialogue’), lecture delivered at Dramaten, 12 May 1986. The lecture was based on two books by Victor Zuckerkandl, Sound and Symbol (Princeton, NJ, 1956) and Man the Musician (Princeton, NJ, 1973 ).
J. W. von Goethe, Preface to Die Farbenlehre (1810), quoted from Goethe’s Theory of Colours (Cambridge, Mass.).
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Florin, M., Göranzon, B., Sällström, P. (1993). The Concept of Dialogue. In: Hilton, J. (eds) New Directions in Theatre. New Directions in Theatre. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22750-1_7
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