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Zusatztext "There are well-crafted and provocative essays here! and the foregrounding of ethical questions makes the volume a potentially useful companion to other anthologies ? . The collection will be of interest to postgraduate students and scholars of theatre history! and some essays could be assigned to advanced undergraduates." (David Calder! Contemporary Theatre Review! Vol. 28 (1)! 2018) "The focus of the present collection is! as signaled by the subtitle! squarely on ethics and evidence ? . they are held together by an impressively coherent and sustained engagement with a set of ethical challenges posed by the alterity of theatre-historical evidence. This volume firmly establishes ethics on the theatre-historiographical agenda." (Christopher Balme! Theatre Notebook! Vol. 71 (1)! February! 2017) Informationen zum Autor David Roberts, Birmingham City University, UK Rosemarie K. Bank, Kent State University, USA Viv Gardner, University of Manchester, UK Katherine Newey, University of Exeter, UK Poonam Trivedi, University of Delhi, India Alison Jeffers, University of Manchester, UK Heike Roms, Aberystwyth University, UK Klappentext This collection of essays explores how historians of theatre apply ethical thinking to the attempt to truthfully represent their subject - whether that be the life of a well-known performer! or the little known history of colonial theatre in India - by exploring the process by which such histories are written! and the challenges they raise. Zusammenfassung This collection of essays explores how historians of theatre apply ethical thinking to the attempt to truthfully represent their subject - whether that be the life of a well-known performer! or the little known history of colonial theatre in India - by exploring the process by which such histories are written! and the challenges they raise. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; Claire Cochrane and Jo RobinsonPART I: RE-WRITING (MASTER) NARRATIVES2. Writing the Ethical Life: Theatrical Biography and the Case of Thomas Betterton; David Roberts3. Ethics and Bias: Historiography and Anti-Theatrical Prejudice in Nineteenth-Century America; Rosemarie Bank4. In the Eye of the Beholder: Recognising and Renegotiating the Scenario in Writing Performance Histories; Viv GardnerPART II: 'OTHER' HISTORIES5. Feminist Historiography and Ethics: a Case Study from Victorian Britain; Katherine Newey6. Garrison Theatre in Colonial India: Issues of Variation; Poonam Trivedi7. Facing the Face of the Other: the Case of the Nia Centre; Claire CochranePART III: THE ETHICS OF EVIDENCE8. Collecting And Re-Collecting: the Challenges and Possibilities of Developing a Social Archive in Post-Conflict Northern Ireland; Alison Jeffers9. Mind the Gaps: Evidencing Performance and Performing Evidence in Performance Art History; Heike RomsBibliographyIndex ...
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"There are well-crafted and provocative essays here, and the foregrounding of ethical questions makes the volume a potentially useful companion to other anthologies ... . The collection will be of interest to postgraduate students and scholars of theatre history, and some essays could be assigned to advanced undergraduates." (David Calder, Contemporary Theatre Review, Vol. 28 (1), 2018)
"The focus of the present collection is, as signaled by the subtitle, squarely on ethics and evidence ... . they are held together by an impressively coherent and sustained engagement with a set of ethical challenges posed by the alterity of theatre-historical evidence. This volume firmly establishes ethics on the theatre-historiographical agenda." (Christopher Balme, Theatre Notebook, Vol. 71 (1), February, 2017)
