Buch

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Übersicht

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Verlag	:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Buchreihe	:	Redefining British Theatre History
Sprache	:	Englisch
Erschienen	:	18. 11. 2003
Seiten	:	240
Einband	:	Kartoniert
Höhe	:	216 mm
Breite	:	140 mm
Gewicht	:	335 g
ISBN	:	9781403907943
Sprache	:	Englisch

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Autorinformation

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SUSAN BENNETT University Professor and Professor of English at the University of Calgary, Canada
UNA CHAUDHURI Professor of English and Drama at New York University, USA
SUSAN LEIGH FOSTER Professor in the World Arts and Cultures Program at UCLA, USA
BARBARA HODGDON Adjunct Professor of English and Theatre at the University of Michigan, USA
DENNIS KENNEDY Samuel Beckett Professor of Drama and Head of the School of Drama in Trinity College, Dublin
LOREN KRUGER Teaches at the University of Chicago, USA
THOMAS POSTLEWAIT Professor of Theatre at Ohio State University, USA
JOSEPH ROACH Charles C. and Dorothea S. Dilley Professor of Theatre at Yale, USA
FREDDIE ROKEM Dean of the Faculty of the Arts and Professor of Theatre Studies at Tel Aviv University, Israel

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Series Introduction - Redefining British Theatre History; P.Holland Volume Introduction - Theorizing Practice; W.B.Worthen PART I: HISTORIOGRAPHIES A History of Histories: From Flecknoe to Nicoll; P.Holland Confessions of an Encyclopedist; D.Kennedy The Criteria for Evidence: Anecdotes in Shakespearean Biography, 1709-2000; T.Postlewait PART II: OBJECTIVITIES Decomposing History (Why Are There So Few Women in Theatre History?); S.Bennett Photography, Theatre, Mnemonics; or, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Still; B.Hodgdon Vicarious: Theatre and the Rise of Synthetic Experience; J.Roach Zoo Stories: "Boundary Work" in Theatre History; U.Chaudhuri PART III: DIS/CONTINUITIES History Plays (in) Britain: Dramas, Nations, and Inventing the Present; L.Kruger Deus ex machina in the Modern theatre: Theatre, History, and Theatre History; F.Rokem PART IV: ABSENCES Improvising/ History; S.L.Foster The Imprint of Performance; W.B.Worthen Index

Pressestimmen

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'This charming mosaic - each piece having been placed by a different hand - is still worthwhile reading, with some wonderful essays.' - Leslie Barcza, Consciousness, Literature and the Arts

'There is much to offer in this volume and I would heartily recommend it to anyone working in theatre and performance history.' - New Theatre Quarterly

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