Symbolism, Setting, and Objects from The Theater and Its Double

Object Descriptions

This section provides a short description of all the major objects in the book. This can be printed out as a study guide for students, used as a "key" for leading a class discussion, or you can jump to the quiz/homework section to find worksheets that incorporate these descriptions into a variety of question formats.

Objects

Balinese theater - This is a form of physical theater practiced by the people of an island of Indonesia.

Sardinia - This is a province of France. It is mentioned in the early part of the first chapter," The Theater and the Plague".

Marseille - This is a city of France where a plague decimated forty thousand inhabitants in 1720 and is also the birthplace of the author.

Grand-Saint-Antoine - This is the name of the boat that brought the source virus of the Oriental plague that decimated the city of the...
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