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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Canning, Charlotte, 1964-

Postlewait, Thomas.

Series:

Studies in theatre history and culture.

Studies in theatre history and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Performing arts--History.

Performing arts.

Theater.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (429 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How do historians represent the past? How do theatre historians represent performance events? The fifteen challenging essays in Representing the Past: Essays in Performance Historiography focus on the fundamental epistemological conditions and procedures that serve as the foundational ideas that guide all historians in their endeavors. Unified by their investigations into how best to understand and then represent the past, this diverse group of scholars in the field of theatre history and performance studies offers insights into the abiding issues that all historians face in the task of

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 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.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781587299384

1587299380

OCLC:

671819473