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The Cambridge Introduction to Theatre Historiography
Ort: Cambridge
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Jahr: 2009
Autor(en): Thomas Postlewait
ISBN: 9780521499170
Umfang / Preis: 360 Seiten / PND 15.99
  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and general history, Postlewait shows how to ask appropriate historical questions, construct evidence, use plays as historical documents, eliminate faulty sources, challenge unreliable witnesses, and develop historical arguments and narratives.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.
Contents
1 Introduction: on some preliminary matters
25 Part I: Documentary History vs. Cultural History: Two Case Studies
27 1. Documentary histories: the case of Shakespeare's Globe theatre
60 2. Cultural histories: the case of Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi
87 Part II: Historical vs. Theatrical Events
89 3. The historical event
117 4. The theatrical event
155 Part III: Placing Events within their Contexts
157 5. The criteria for periodization in theatre history: definitive categories for events
196 6. The idea of the 'political' in our histories of theatre: causal contexts for events
223 Part IV: Summing Up
225 7. The theatrical event and its conditions: a primer with twelve cruxes
270 Notes
300 Works Cited
339 Index
Anmerkungen:
Aus der Reihe "Cambridge Introductions to Literature"
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