| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
|
| Title Information: |
essays in performance historiography |
| Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
PostlewaitThomas, |
| Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
CanningCharlotte, 1964- |
| Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
Project Muse |
| Place of Publication: |
Iowa City |
| Published: |
University of Iowa Press; |
| Year of Publication: |
2010 |
| Description: |
1 online resource (viii, 416 p.)ill. : |
| Series: |
Studies in theatre history and culture |
| Subject: |
Theater - Historiography - |
| Online resource: |
http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781587299384/ |
| Notes: |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: |
9781587299384electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
1587299380electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
9781587299056pbk. |
| ISBN: |
1587299054pbk. |
| Content Note: |
Representing the past : an introduction on five themes / THOMAS POSTLEWAIT AND CHARLOTTE CANNING -- ARCHIVE. Playbills and the theatrical public sphere / CHRISTOPER B. BALME -- The making of theatre history / SUSAN BENNETT -- Writing the unwritten : Morris dance and theatre history / CLAIRE SPONSLER -- TIME. Cyclic perseverance and linear mobility oftheatrical events / WILLMAR SAUTER -- Performative time / TRACY C. DAVIS -- Representing India's pasts : time, culture, and the problems of performance historiography / APARNA DHARWADKER -- SPACE. Space and theatre history / MARVIN CARLSON -- Seeing is believing : the historian's use of images / DAVID WILES -- When "everything counts" : experimental performance and performance historiography / Shannon Jackson. IDENTITY. History's thresholds : stories from Africa / CATHERINE M. COLE -- The high stakes of identity : Lorraine Hansberry's Follow the drinking gourd and Suzan-Lori Parks' Venus / HARRY J. ELAM, JR. -- Fifty years of staginga founding father : political theater, dramatic history, and the question of representation / XIAOMEI CHEN -- NARRATIVE. Textual evidances/ SUSAN L. FOSTER -- Narratives of nostalgia : Oriental evasions aboutthe London stage / BRIAN SINGLETON -- Re-enacting events to narrate theatre history / BRUCEMcCONACHIE |