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Theatre histories : an introduction / general editor: Tobin Nellhaus ; Bruce McConachie, Tobin Nellhaus, Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei and Tamara Underiner.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2016Edition: Third editionDescription: xxiv, 632 pages illustrations (some color) 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780415837972
  • 0415837979
  • 9780415837965
  • 0415837960
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: ebook version :: No titleDDC classification:
  • 792.09 23
LOC classification:
  • PN2101
Other classification:
  • Ikb
Contents:
General introduction -- Performance in oral and manuscript cultures : From oral to literate performance ; Pleasure, power, and aesthetics: theatre in early literate societies, 500 BCE-1450 CE ; Commemorative drama and carnival -- Theatre and performance in early print cultures : Secular and early professional theatre, 1250-1650 ; Theatre and the print revolution, 1550-1650 ; Theatres of absolutism, 1600-1770 -- Theatre and performance in periodical print cultures : Theatre and sentiment: newspapers, private lives, and the bourgeois public sphere, 1700-1785 ; Nationalism in the theatre, 1760-1880 ; Performing "progress": from imperial display to the triumph of realism and naturalism, 1790-1914 ; New media divide the theatres of print culture, 1870-1930 -- Theatre and performance in electric and electronic communication culture : New theatres for revolutionary times, 1910-1950 ; The aftermath of the Second World War: realism and its discontents in an increasingly shrinking world, 1940-1970 ; Art, politics, or business?: theatre in search of identity, 1968-2000 ; Theatres of local roots and global reach, 1970-present ; Theatre in networked culture, 1990-present.
Summary: This thoroughly revised and updated third edition of the innovative and widely acclaimed Theatre Histories: An Introduction offers a critical overview of global theatre and drama, spanning a broad wealth of world cultures and periods. Bringing together a group of scholars from a diverse range of backgrounds to add fresh perspectives on the history of global theatre, the book illustrates historiographical theories with case studies demonstrating various methods and interpretive approaches.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

General introduction -- Performance in oral and manuscript cultures : From oral to literate performance ; Pleasure, power, and aesthetics: theatre in early literate societies, 500 BCE-1450 CE ; Commemorative drama and carnival -- Theatre and performance in early print cultures : Secular and early professional theatre, 1250-1650 ; Theatre and the print revolution, 1550-1650 ; Theatres of absolutism, 1600-1770 -- Theatre and performance in periodical print cultures : Theatre and sentiment: newspapers, private lives, and the bourgeois public sphere, 1700-1785 ; Nationalism in the theatre, 1760-1880 ; Performing "progress": from imperial display to the triumph of realism and naturalism, 1790-1914 ; New media divide the theatres of print culture, 1870-1930 -- Theatre and performance in electric and electronic communication culture : New theatres for revolutionary times, 1910-1950 ; The aftermath of the Second World War: realism and its discontents in an increasingly shrinking world, 1940-1970 ; Art, politics, or business?: theatre in search of identity, 1968-2000 ; Theatres of local roots and global reach, 1970-present ; Theatre in networked culture, 1990-present.

This thoroughly revised and updated third edition of the innovative and widely acclaimed Theatre Histories: An Introduction offers a critical overview of global theatre and drama, spanning a broad wealth of world cultures and periods. Bringing together a group of scholars from a diverse range of backgrounds to add fresh perspectives on the history of global theatre, the book illustrates historiographical theories with case studies demonstrating various methods and interpretive approaches.

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