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Zusatztext This volume of essays makes a valuable and, yes, entertaining contribution to drag histories and herstories (the hairstories are in there, too), bringing a range of perspectives on performance cultures and performers that are illuminating. The sense of fun, passion and energy of so many performers and performance cultures are celebrated, documented and subjected to valuable critique here. Informationen zum Autor Dr Mark Edward is a pracademic and Reader in Creative Arts at Edge Hill University, UK. His publications include Mesearch and the Performing Body (2018) besides book chapters for Oxford University Press, Springer, Sage, and Supernova Books. Professionally he has worked for Rambert Dance Company and performed with the renowned American performance artist Penny Arcade in her seminal work 'Bad Reputation' (2004) and in Jeremy Goldstein’s ‘Truth to Power Café’ (2018). Mark is also the writer and producer of the immersive performance and film installation ‘Council House Movie Star’ (2012) featuring his drag persona Gale Force. Dr Stephen Farrier is Reader in Theatre and Performance, at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, UK. With Alyson Campbell has has co-edited Queer Dramaturgies: International Perspectives on Where Performance Leads Queer (2015) as well as a themed edition of RIDE, The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance named the ‘Gender and Sexuality Issue’. Enoch Brater is the Kenneth T. Rowe Collegiate Professor of Dramatic Literature, Professor of English and Theater at the University of Michigan and the series editor of Methuen Drama's Miller scholarly editions. He has written extensively on the work of Samuel Beckett and Arthur Miller. Enoch Brater is the Kenneth T. Rowe Collegiate Professor of Dramatic Literature, Professor of English and Theater at the University of Michigan. He is series editor of Methuen Drama's Arthur Miller scholarly editions, and with Mark Taylor-Batty of Methuen Drama's Engage series. He has written extensively on the work of Samuel Beckett and Arthur Miller. Mark Taylor-Batty is Associate Professor of Theatre Studies and Deputy Head of School in the School of English at the University of Leeds, UK. His previous publications include The Theatre of Harold Pinter (Bloomsbury, 2014), About Pinter: The Playwright and the Work (Faber and Faber, 2005), Roger Blin: Collaborations and Methodologies (Peter Lang, 2007) and, he co-authored with his wife, Juliette Taylor-Batty, Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot (Continuum, 2009).The chapters in the book not only examine drag histories, but also what drag does with history, how it enacts or tells stories about remembering and the past. It features work about the USA, UK and Ireland, Japan, Australia, Brazil and Barbados. Zusammenfassung Drawing on rich interdisciplinary research that has laced the emerging subject of drag studies as an academic discipline, this book examines how drag performance is a political, socio-cultural practice with a widespread lineage throughout the history of performance. This volume maps the multi-threaded contexts of contemporary practices while rooting them in their fabulous historical past and memory.The book examines drag histories and what drag does with history, how it enacts or tells stories about remembering and the past. Featuring work about the USA, UK and Ireland, Japan, Australia, Brazil and Barbados, this book allows the reader to engage with a range of archival research including camp and history; ethnicity and drag; queering ballet through drag; the connections between drag king and queen history; queering pantomime performance; drag and military veterans; Puerto Rican drag performers and historical film. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors AcknowledgementsForeword by Penny ArcadePreface...
