Theatre and History

This provocative book meets the supposedly ''live'' practices of performance and the ''no-longer-live'' historical past at their own dangerous crossroads. Focussing on the ''and'' of the title, it addresses the tangled relations between the terms, practices, ideas, and aims embedded in these compatriot - but often oppositional - arts and acts of time.>

List of contents

Series Editors' Preface
1. Theatre And History
2. 'And'
3. 'History'
4. 'Theatre'
5. History and the Theatre Artist
6. The Anti-theatrical Prejudice
7. The Anti-intellectual Prejudice
8. Theatre and the Historian
9. The Problem with Passions
10. The Problem with Archives
11. Whose History is Theatre's History?
12. Of Knives and Blood
Bibliography
Index.

About the author

Rebecca Schneider is Professor of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies at Brown University, USA.

Product details

• Authors: Rebecca Schneider, Schneider Rebecca
• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.10.2014
• EAN: 9780230246614
• ISBN: 978-0-230-24661-4
• No. of pages: 116
• Dimensions: 110 mm x 178 mm x 10 mm
• Series: Theatre And; Theatre And
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Non-fiction book > Music, film, theatre; B, Performing Arts, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Theatre and Performance Arts