Theatre History And Historiography

Author : Claire Cochrane,Jo Robinson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350034310

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The Methuen Drama Handbook of Theatre History and Historiography by Claire Cochrane,Jo Robinson Pdf

The Methuen Drama Handbook of Theatre History and Historiography is an authoritative guide to contemporary debates and practices in this field. The book covers the key themes and methods that are current in theatre history research, with a particular focus on expanding the object of study to include engagement with theatre and performance practices and the development of theatre histories around the world. Central to the book are eighteen specially commissioned essays by established and emerging scholars from a wide range of international contexts, whose discussion of individual case studies is predicated on their understanding and experience of their 'local' landscape of theatre history. These essays reveal where important work continues to be done in the field and, most valuably, draws on academic contexts beyond the Western academy to expand our knowledge of the exciting directions that such an approach opens up. Prefaced by an introduction tracing the development of the discipline of theatre history and changing historiographical approaches, the Handbook explores current issues pertaining to theatre and performance history research, as well as providing up to date and robust introductions to the methods and historiographic questions being explored by researchers in the field. Featuring a series of essential research tools, including a detailed list of resources and an annotated bibliography of key texts, this is an indispensable scholarly handbook for anyone working in theatre and performance history and historiography.

Author : Claire Cochrane
Publisher : Springer
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137457288

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Theatre History and Historiography by Claire Cochrane Pdf

This collection of essays explores how historians of theatre apply ethical thinking to the attempt to truthfully represent their subject - whether that be the life of a well-known performer, or the little known history of colonial theatre in India - by exploring the process by which such histories are written, and the challenges they raise.

Author : R. Bank,M. Kobialka
Publisher : Springer
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137397300

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Theatre/Performance Historiography by R. Bank,M. Kobialka Pdf

How do the ethical implications of writing theatrical histories complicate the historiographical imperative in our current sociopolitical context? This volume investigates a historiography whose function is to be a mode of thinking and exposes the inner contradictions in social and ideological organizations of historical subjects.

Author : Charlotte M. Canning,Thomas Postlewait
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781587299384

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Representing the Past by Charlotte M. Canning,Thomas Postlewait Pdf

"Representing the Past is required reading for any serious scholar of theatre and performance historiography: original in its conception, global in its reach, thought-provoking and transformative in its effects."---Gay Gibson Cima, author, Early American Women Crities: Performance, Religion, Race --

Author : Thomas Postlewait
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-30
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521495707

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The Cambridge Introduction to Theatre Historiography by Thomas Postlewait Pdf

A 'how to' guide for students and teachers of theatre history, covering archival research, developing historical descriptions and writing reports.

Author : Thomas Postlewait,Bruce A. McConachie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:49015003129419

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Interpreting the Theatrical Past by Thomas Postlewait,Bruce A. McConachie Pdf

Author : Tracy C. Davis,Peter W. Marx
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 972 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781351271707

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The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance Historiography by Tracy C. Davis,Peter W. Marx Pdf

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance Historiography sets the agenda for inclusive and wide-ranging approaches to writing history, embracing the diverse perspectives of the twenty-first century and Critical Media History. Written by an international team of authors whose expertise spans a multitude of historical periods and cultures, this collection of fascinating essays poses the central question: "what is specific to the historiography of the performative?" The study of theatre, in conjunction with the wider sphere of performance, involves an array of multi-faceted methods for collecting evidence, interpreting sources, and creating meaning. Reflecting on issues of recording — from early modern musical scores, through VHS-technology to latest digital procedures — and on what is missing from records or oblique in practices, the contributors convey how theatre and performance history is integral to social and cultural relations. This expertly curated collection repositions theatre and performance history and is essential reading for Theatre and Performance Studies students or those interested in social and cultural history more generally.

Author : Phillip B. Zarrilli
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780415462235

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Theatre Histories by Phillip B. Zarrilli Pdf

Providing a clear journey through centuries of European, North and South American, African and Asian forms of theatre and performance, this introduction helps the reader think critically about this exciting field through fascinating yet plain-speaking essays and case studies.

Author : Claire Cochrane,Jo Robinson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350034303

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The Methuen Drama Handbook of Theatre History and Historiography by Claire Cochrane,Jo Robinson Pdf

The Methuen Drama Handbook of Theatre History and Historiography is an authoritative guide to contemporary debates and practices in this field. The book covers the key themes and methods that are current in theatre history research, with a particular focus on expanding the object of study to include engagement with theatre and performance practices and the development of theatre histories around the world. Central to the book are eighteen specially commissioned essays by established and emerging scholars from a wide range of international contexts, whose discussion of individual case studies is predicated on their understanding and experience of their 'local' landscape of theatre history. These essays reveal where important work continues to be done in the field and, most valuably, draws on academic contexts beyond the Western academy to expand our knowledge of the exciting directions that such an approach opens up. Prefaced by an introduction tracing the development of the discipline of theatre history and changing historiographical approaches, the Handbook explores current issues pertaining to theatre and performance history research, as well as providing up to date and robust introductions to the methods and historiographic questions being explored by researchers in the field. Featuring a series of essential research tools, including a detailed list of resources and an annotated bibliography of key texts, this is an indispensable scholarly handbook for anyone working in theatre and performance history and historiography.

Author : S.E. Wilmer
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781587295218

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Writing and Rewriting National Theatre Histories by S.E. Wilmer Pdf

Historians of theatre face the same temptations and challenges as other historians: they negotiate assumptions (their own and those of others) about national identity and national character; they decide what events and actors to highlight--or omit--and what framework and perspective to use for telling the story. Personal biases, trends in scholarship, and sociopolitical contexts influence all histories; and theatre histories, too, are often revised to reflect changing times and interests. This significant collection examines the problems and challenges of formulating national theatre histories.The essayists included here--leading theatre scholars from all over the world, many of whom wrote essays specifically for this volume--provide an international context for national theatre histories as well as studies of individual nations. They cover a wide geographical area: Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, and North America. The essays contrast large countries (India, Indonesia) with small (Ireland), newly independent (Slovenia) with established (U.S.A.), developed (Canada) with developing (Mexico, South Africa), capitalist (U.S.A.) with formerly communist (Russia), monolingual (Sweden) with multilingual (Belgium, Canada), and countries with stable historical boundaries (Sweden) with those whose borders have shifted (Germany).The essays also explore such sociopolitical issues as the polarization of language groups, the importance of religion, the invisibility of ethnic minorities, the redrawing of geographical borders, changes in ideology, and the dismantling of colonial legacies. Finally, they examine such common problems of history writing as types of evidence, periodization, canonization, styles of narrative, and definitions of key terms.Writing and Rewriting National Theatre Histories will be of special interest to students and scholars of theatre, cultural studies, and historiography.

Author : Maggie Barbara Gale,Viv Gardner
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0719057132

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Women, Theatre and Performance by Maggie Barbara Gale,Viv Gardner Pdf

This collection addresses key questions in women's theatre history and retrieves a number of previously "hidden" histories of women performers. The essays range across the past 300 years--topics covered include Susanna Centlivre and the notion of intertheatricality; gender and theatrical space; the repositioning of women performers such as Wagner's Muse, Willhelmina Schröder-Devrient, the Comédie Français' "Mademoiselle Mars," Mme. Arnould-Plessey, and the actresses of the Russian serf theatre.

Author : Heather Davis-Fisch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1770917756

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Canadian Performance Histories and Historiographies by Heather Davis-Fisch Pdf

Challenging the idea of a singular narrative of Canadian theatre history and centring on questions of historiography and methodology, the essays in this collection investigate performances that have been excluded from mainstream theatre histories and re-evaluate well-known theatre movements to explore cultural memory. This collection asks, how do we remember performances of the past and why do some stories survive while others have been largely forgotten? Contributors draw on recent critical developments in performance studies, historiography, Indigenous studies, and hemispheric studies to explore topics ranging from the affective labour performed in life writing by World War I veterans, to a reconsideration of the role of dramaturgs in the alternative theatre movement, to a microhistory of petitions protesting minstrel performers appearing in Toronto, to a timely consideration of digital technologies in performance art documentation.

Author : P. Holland,W.B. Worthen
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2003-11-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1403907943

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Theorizing Practice by P. Holland,W.B. Worthen Pdf

In a series of essays, several of the most significant figures in the field present a wide-ranging interrogation of the practice of theatre history studies at the present time, raising questions of history and historiography; the bearing of national, sexual, and racial identity on the canons of theatre history; the limits of print and the history of non-textual forms of performance; the intersections between theatre and other forms of commodification; and even the work of performance at the borders of the human.

Author : David Wiles,Christine Dymkowski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521766364

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The Cambridge Companion to Theatre History by David Wiles,Christine Dymkowski Pdf

A wide-ranging set of essays that explain what theatre history is and why we need to engage with it.

Author : Henry Bial,Scott Magelssen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Theater
ISBN : 0472071335

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Theater Historiography by Henry Bial,Scott Magelssen Pdf

Fresh approaches to theater historiography and performance studies that bring the two fields productively together