[PDF] The Cambridge Introduction To Theatre Historiography eBook

Author : Thomas Postlewait
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 17,75 MB
Release : 2009-04-30
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521499170

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This Introduction - an indispensable 'how to' guide for students and teachers alike - investigates the methods and aims of historical study in the performing arts, from archival research to historical writing. Beginning with case studies on Shakespearean theatre and avant-garde theatre, this study examines fundamental procedures and problems in documentary history and cultural history. It demonstrates how historians not only construct various kinds of performance events but also place them in relation to the historical agents, the political and social conditions, artistic traditions, audience responses, and historical periods. Drawing upon scholarship in classics, literary studies, art history, performance studies, and general history, Postlewait shows how to ask appropriate historical questions, construct evidence, use plays as historical documents, eliminate faulty sources, challenge unreliable witnesses, and develop historical arguments and narratives. The book concludes with a survey of the 'twelve cruxes' of research, analysis, and writing in theatre history.

Author : David Wiles
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 29,70 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521766362

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A wide-ranging set of essays that explain what theatre history is and why we need to engage with it.

Author : Christopher B. Balme
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,22 MB
Release : 2008-09-18
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521856225

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This volume introduces the key elements and approaches in the study of theatre and performance, covering drama, music theatre and dance.

Author : Christopher Innes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 20,50 MB
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521844495

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The director was fundamental to the development of modern theatre. This Introduction explores the emergence of the director's artistic force.

Author : Christopher B. Balme
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 50,27 MB
Release : 2008-09-18
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1316264963

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Providing thorough coverage of the methods and tools required in studying historical and contemporary theatre, this Introduction examines the complexities of a rapidly changing and dynamic discipline. Following a cross-cultural perspective, the book surveys the ways theatre and performance are studied by looking initially at key elements such as performers, spectators and space. The central focus is on methodology, which is divided into sections covering theatre theory, historiography and textual and performance analysis. The book covers all the main theatrical genres - drama, opera and dance - providing students with a comparative, integrated perspective. Designed to guide students through the academic dimension of the discipline, the volume emphasizes questions of methodology, research techniques and approaches, and will therefore be relevant for a wide variety of theatre studies courses. Informative textboxes provide background on key topics, and suggestions for further reading are included at the end of each chapter.

Author : Jennifer Wallace
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 12,54 MB
Release : 2007-05-10
Category : Drama
ISBN : 052185539X

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An introductory study into tragedy in drama and literature, and in the real world.

Author : Janette Dillon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 39 pages
File Size : 50,81 MB
Release : 2006-06-12
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521834740

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An accessible introduction to early English theatre, from the late medieval period to 1642.

Author : James R. Brandon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 22,4 MB
Release : 1997-01-28
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521588225

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A comprehensive and authoritative single-volume reference work on the theatre arts of Asia-Oceania. Nine expert scholars provide entries on performance in twenty countries from Pakistan in the west, through India and Southeast Asia to China, Japan and Korea in the east. An introductory pan-Asian essay explores basic themes - they include ritual, dance, puppetry, training, performance and masks. The national entries concentrate on the historical development of theatre in each country, followed by entries on the major theatre forms, and articles on playwrights, actors and directors. The entries are accompanied by rare photographs and helpful reading lists.

Author : Don B. Wilmeth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 10,89 MB
Release : 1996-06-13
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521564441

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"This new and updated Guide, with over 2,700 cross-referenced entries, covers all aspects of the American theatre from its earliest history to the present. Entries include people, venues and companies scattered through the U.S., plays and musicals, and theatrical phenomena. Additionally, there are some 100 topical entries covering theatre in major U.S. cities and such disparate subjects as Asian American theatre, Chicano theatre, censorship, Filipino American theatre, one-person performances, performance art, and puppetry. Highly illustrated, the Guide is supplemented with a historical survey as introduction, a bibliography of major sources published since the first edition, and a biographical index covering over 3,200 individuals mentioned in the text."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Peter Thomson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 21,42 MB
Release : 2006-09-14
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521547901

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This 2006 introduction aims to share with readers the author's enjoyment of the turbulent 240-year history of a theatre that tried, often against the odds, to be 'modern'. In each of its five parts, it deals successively with history and cultural context, with the plays and the actors who caught the imagination of their era. Peter Thomson's text, always approachable, is enriched by quotations and carefully selected illustrations that capture 'the spirit of the age' under consideration. Beginning with the reopening of the playhouses under licence from Charles II, Thomson introduces the modern English theatre by breaking off at key dates - 1700, 1737, 1789 and 1843 - in order to explore both continuity and innovation. Familiar names and well-known plays feature alongside the forgotten and neglected. This is a reading of dramatic history that keeps constantly in mind the material circumstances that produced, and sometimes oppressed, a supremely popular theatre.