NTRODUCTION: Three artists of the theatre: actress, playwright, and spectator ; The Aesthetic and the Existential ; Kierkegaard as an Aesthetician ; The role of the aesthetic in the religious life and in a Christian 'authorship' / [Stephen D. Crites] -- The crisis and a crisis in the life of an actress -- A passing comment on a detail in Don Juan -- Herr Phister as Captain Scipio.