Format:
VIII, 416 S.
,
Ill., graph. Darst.
ISBN:
1587299054
,
9781587299056
Series Statement:
Studies in theatre history and culture
Content:
Representing the past : an introduction on five themes / THOMAS POSTLEWAIT AND CHARLOTTE CANNING -- ARCHIVE. Playbills and the theatrical public sphere / CHRISTOPER B. BALME -- The making of theatre history / SUSAN BENNETT -- Writing the unwritten : Morris dance and theatre history / CLAIRE SPONSLER -- TIME. Cyclic perseverance and linear mobility of theatrical events / WILLMAR SAUTER -- Performative time / TRACY C. DAVIS -- Representing India's pasts : time, culture, and the problems of performance historiography / APARNA DHARWADKER -- SPACE. Space and theatre history / MARVIN CARLSON -- Seeing is believing : the historian's use of images / DAVID WILES -- When "everything counts" : experimental performance and performance historiography / Shannon Jackson. IDENTITY. History's thresholds : stories from Africa / CATHERINE M. COLE -- The high stakes of identity : Lorraine Hansberry's Follow the drinking gourd and Suzan-Lori Parks' Venus / HARRY J. ELAM, JR. -- Fifty years of staging a founding father : political theater, dramatic history, and the question of representation / XIAOMEI CHEN -- NARRATIVE. Textual evidances / SUSAN L. FOSTER -- Narratives of nostalgia : Oriental evasions about the London stage / BRIAN SINGLETON -- Re-enacting events to narrate theatre history / BRUCE McCONACHIE
Note:
Representing the past : an introduction on five themes
,
ARCHIVE. Playbills and the theatrical public sphere
,
The making of theatre history
,
Writing the unwritten : Morris dance and theatre history
,
TIME. Cyclic perseverance and linear mobility of theatrical events
,
Performative time
,
Representing India's pasts : time, culture, and the problems of performance historiography
,
SPACE. Space and theatre history
,
Seeing is believing : the historian's use of images
,
When "everything counts" : experimental performance and performance historiography
,
The high stakes of identity : Lorraine Hansberry's Follow the drinking gourd and Suzan-Lori Parks' Venus
,
Fifty years of staging a founding father : political theater, dramatic history, and the question of representation
,
NARRATIVE. Textual evidances
,
Narratives of nostalgia : Oriental evasions about the London stage
,
Re-enacting events to narrate theatre history
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1587299380
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781587299384
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
Keywords:
Theater
;
Geschichtsschreibung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
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