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This updated 4th edition of
Theatre Histories offers a critical overview of global theatre, drama, and performance, spanning a broad wealth of world cultures and periods, integrating them chronologically or thematically, and showing how they have often interacted.
List of contents
Part 1 1. From oral to literate performance 2. Pleasure, power, and transmission: Scripted and non-scripted theatres 3. Commemorative Drama and Carnival
Part 2 4. Secular and Professional Theatre, 1250-1650 5. Theatre and the print revolution in Europe, 1550-1650 6. European Absolutisms and Performance, 1600-1770
Part 3 7. Sentiment, satire, and acting in bourgeois Europe, 1700-1785 8. Nationalism in the Theatre in Europe and the Americas, 1760-1880 9. Theatricalizing modern imperialism and Orientalism, 1790-1914 10. Realism, Early Avant Gardes, Commodity Capitalism and Circuits of Performance
Part 4 11. Revolutionary times, 1910-1950 12. The aftermath of the Second World War and theatres of the Cold War: 1940-1970 13. Art, politics, identity, 1968-2023 14. Theatres of local roots and global reach, 1970-2023 15. Theatre in networked culture, 1990-2023
About the author
Daphne P. Lei is a Professor of Drama and the Associate Dean for Graduate Affairs at the Claire Trevor School of the Arts, University of California, Irvine, USA. She is the 2022 recipient of the Distinguished Scholar Award, the lifetime achievement award from the American Society for Theatre Research.
Tobin Nellhaus is an Independent Scholar. He writes mainly on the relationship between theatre and communication practices, and on critical realism in theatre theory and historiography.
Tamara Underiner is an Associate Professor in the School of Music, Dance and Theatre at Arizona State University, USA, and the Director of the PhD program in Theatre and Performance of the Americas.
Patricia Ybarra is the MacMillan Family Professor of the Humanities in the Department of Theatre and Performance Studies at Brown University, USA. She is a former president of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education.
Summary
This updated 4th edition of Theatre Histories offers a critical overview of global theatre, drama, and performance, spanning a broad wealth of world cultures and periods, integrating them chronologically or thematically, and showing how they have often interacted.
