Performance Spaces and Stage Technologies A Comparative Perspective on Theatre History Yuji Nawata, Hans Joachim Dethlefs

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nawata, Yuji Chuo University Tokyo, Japan, Editor.

Dethlefs, Hans Joachim Chuo University Tokyo, Japan, Editor.

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Series:

Theater (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) ; Volume 146.

Theater 146

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theatre; Performance; Stage; Technology; History; History of Theatre; Theatre Studies;.

Local Subjects:

Theatre; Performance; Stage; Technology; History; History of Theatre; Theatre Studies;.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (177 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2022

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Yuji Nawata, born in 1964, studied German literature at the University of Tokyo, where he completed his PhD in 1994. He was habilitated in culture science at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in 2011. Since 2002, he has been a professor at the Department of German Studies of Chuo University in Tokyo.

Hans Joachim Dethlefs, born in 1952, received his doctorate from Philipps-Universität Marburg and works as a professor at the Department of German Studies at Chuo University, Tokyo. Publications, among others, include the following: »Der Wohlstand der Kunst: Ökonomische, sozialethische und eudämonistische Sinnperspektiven im frühneuzeitlichen Umgang mit dem Schönen« (Tokyo 2010). His research focuses on the evolution of Northern European art terminologies following Italian art theory.

Summary:

The history of theatre has often been written as a history of great writers, actors, or directors. This book takes a different approach: The contributors examine the history of performance from the perspective of theatre spaces and stage technologies. Art, literature, religion, law, urbanism, architecture, technology - this interdisciplinary book discusses how these fields relate to theatre and performance. Geographically, it covers a significant portion of the globe; chronologically, it ranges from ancient times to the present. This book provides a timely attempt to combine cultural and global history.

Contents:

Frontmatter 1 Contents 5 Preface 7 Performance Spaces in Ancient Chinese Cities: Street Theatres of the 9th Century Capital Chang'an 13 The Semi-Circular Theatre in Seleucid and Arsacid Babylon 33 The Perspectival Stage in Sebastiano Serlio's Second Book of Architecture (1545) and its German Reception in the Context of Wohlstand 47 Central Perspective in Catholic Churches and on Stage in Europe between the 15th and 17th Centuries 91 Notable Spectacles in the Late 19th-Century Kabuki Stage 103 Berlin and its Theatres between 1870 and 1890 111 The Theatres in Modern Shanghai: From the Perspective of Cultural History 123 Discussions on Theatre Spaces and Theatre Materials by the Leningrad School 133 Projection Technology and the Theatre Stage: Light, Space, Body Politics 143 Cultural Techniques of Play: A Global Perspective 157 Contributors 171

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

Other Format:

Print version: Nawata, Yuji Performance Spaces and Stage Technologies

ISBN:

9783839461129

383946112X

OCLC:

1293245144