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Representing the past : essays in performance historiography /

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 gui...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Canning, Charlotte, 1964-, Postlewait, Thomas
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2010.
Colección:Studies in theatre history and culture.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.