Interpreting the theatrical past : essays in the historiography of performance / edited by Thomas Postlewait & Bruce A. McConachie

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Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 1989Edition: 1st edDescription: xi, 325 pàgines : il·lustracions en blanc i negre ; 23 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

sense mediació

Carrier type:

volum

ISBN:

0877452288
9780877452287
0877452385
9780877452386

Subject(s):

Teatre -- Historiografia

Contents:

Introduction / Thomas Postlewait & Bruce A. McConachie -- Theatre History as an Academic Discipline / R.W. Vince -- Theatre and the Civilizing Process: An Approach to the History of Acting / Erika Fischer-Lichte -- Using the Concept of Cultural Hegemony to Write Theatre History / Bruce A. McConachie -- Questions for a Feminist Methodology in Theatre History / Tracy C. Davis -- Theatre Audiences and the Reading of Performance / Marvin Carlson -- Power's Body: The Inscription of Morality as Style / Joseph R. Roach -- Opera as Historical Drama: Le Clemenza di Tito, Khovanschina, Moses und Aron / Herbert Lindenberger -- Here Comes Everybody: Scholarship and Black Theatre History / James V. Hatch -- Emphasizing the Avant-Garde: An Exploration in Theatre Historiography / Alan Woods -- Evidence and Documentation / Joseph Donohue -- Performance Reconstruction: The Vital Link Between Past and Future / Robert K. Sarlos -- Actors' Biography and Mythmaking: The Example of Edmund Kean / Leigh Wood -- Autobiography and Theatre History / Thomas Postlewait -- Historiography: A Select Bibliography -- Theatre History -- Art, Literary, and Cultural History -- General Historiography / Thomas Postlewait

Summary: "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

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Home library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Llibre	Biblioteca Barcelona	Biblioteca Barcelona BCN Lliure Accés	792(09) INT (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		1900087750

Inclou referències bibliogràfiques, pàgines 273-305, i índex

"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

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