Representing the past : essays in performance historiography / edited by Charlotte M. Canning & Thomas Postlewait.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Canning, Charlotte, 1964-

Postlewait, Thomas.

Series:

Studies in theatre history and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theater--Historiography.

Theater.

Physical Description:

viii, 416 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2010]

Contents:

Representing the past : an introduction on five themes / THOMAS POSTLEWAIT AND CHARLOTTE CANNING

ARCHIVE. Playbills and the theatrical public sphere / CHRISTOPHER 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 theatre, dramatic history, and the question of representation in modern China / XIAOMEI CHEN

NARRATIVE. Textual evidances / SUSAN L. FOSTER

Narratives of nostalgia : Oriental evasions about the London stage / BRIAN SINGLETON

Reenacting events to narrate theatre history / BRUCE McCONACHIE.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781587299056

1587299054

9781587299384

1587299380

OCLC:

560555944