Interpreting the theatrical past : essays in the historiography of performance /
edited by Thomas Postlewait & Bruce A. McConachie
- 1st ed.
- xi, 325 pàgines : il·lustracions en blanc i negre ; 23 cm
Inclou referències bibliogràfiques, pàgines 273-305, i índex
Introduction / Theatre History as an Academic Discipline / Theatre and the Civilizing Process: An Approach to the History of Acting / Using the Concept of Cultural Hegemony to Write Theatre History / Questions for a Feminist Methodology in Theatre History / Theatre Audiences and the Reading of Performance / Power's Body: The Inscription of Morality as Style / Opera as Historical Drama: Le Clemenza di Tito, Khovanschina, Moses und Aron / Here Comes Everybody: Scholarship and Black Theatre History / Emphasizing the Avant-Garde: An Exploration in Theatre Historiography / Evidence and Documentation / Performance Reconstruction: The Vital Link Between Past and Future / Actors' Biography and Mythmaking: The Example of Edmund Kean / Autobiography and Theatre History / Historiography: A Select Bibliography -- Theatre History -- Art, Literary, and Cultural History -- General Historiography / Thomas Postlewait & Bruce A. McConachie -- R.W. Vince -- Erika Fischer-Lichte -- Bruce A. McConachie -- Tracy C. Davis -- Marvin Carlson -- Joseph R. Roach -- Herbert Lindenberger -- James V. Hatch -- Alan Woods -- Joseph Donohue -- Robert K. Sarlos -- Leigh Wood -- Thomas Postlewait -- Thomas Postlewait
"The essays in this broadly based work examine the research procedures, practices, problems, and opportunities in the field of theatre history. No single methodology or theory dominates this anthology; instead it offers various approaches to the study of the theatrical past. It is the first of its kind in theatre historiography, useful for research as well as classroom adoption.Though these thirteen essays provide historical information on specific people, events, works, documents, institutions, and social conditions in the theatre, they aim primarily to explore theoretical and methodological issues, to review and analyze current research practices and presuppositions, and to identify and apply new theoretical orientations to theatre studies. Whatever their interpretive viewpoint and rhetorical tone, each of the essays calls for greater awareness of the problems and opportunities that face the discipline. Consequently, this collection will be valuable reading not only for theatre historians but for scholars in literary and popular studies and in all the performing arts." -- Contracoberta