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