The Methuen Drama Handbook of Theatre History and Historiography

Herausgeber: Cochrane, Claire; Robinson, Jo

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Methuen Drama Handbook of Theatre History and Historiography offers an authoritative guide to contemporary debates and practices in this field. The book covers current key themes and methods in theatre history research, and expands the object of study to include engagement with theatre and performance practices and the development of theatre histories around the world. Central to the book are 16 specially commissioned essays by established and emerging scholars from a wide range of international contexts, whose discussion of individual case studies is predicated on their understanding and experience of their 'local' landscape of theatre history. These essays reveal where important work continues to be done in the field and, most valuably, draw on academic contexts beyond the Western academy to expand our knowledge of the exciting directions that such an approach opens up. Prefaced by an introduction tracing the development of the discipline of theatre history and changing historiographical approaches, the handbook explores current issues pertaining to theatre and performance history research, and provides up to date and robust introductions to the methods and historiographic questions being explored by researchers in the field. Featuring a series of essential research tools, including a detailed list of resources and an annotated bibliography of key texts, this is an indispensable scholarly handbook for anyone working in theatre and performance history and historiography.

Produktdetails

• Methuen Drama Handbooks
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 152mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 630g
• ISBN-13: 9781350336216
• ISBN-10: 1350336211
• Artikelnr.: 64530384

Autorenporträt

Claire Cochrane is Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Worcester, UK. Jo Robinson is Professor of Theatre and Performance at Newcastle University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations List of Contributors Acknowledgements How to Use this
Book Claire Cochrane (University of Worcester, UK) and Jo Robinson
(University of Nottingham, UK) 1. Introduction Claire Cochrane (University
of Worcester, UK) and Jo Robinson (University of Nottingham, UK) 2.
Research Methods and Methodologies Claire Cochrane (University of
Worcester, UK) and Jo Robinson (University of Nottingham, UK) 3. Current
Research: Case Studies from the Field 3.1 Seeing Differently Through Time
and Space Introduction: Claire Cochrane (University of Worcester, UK) and
Jo Robinson (University of Nottingham, UK) 3.1.1 A-foot in Time:
Temporality in the Space of a Moment in Theatre History Rosemarie Bank
(Kent State University, USA) 3.1.2 Nuwhju and the Archive: Recuperating the
History of Aboriginal Australian Performance Practice Maryrose Casey
(Monash University, Australia) 3.2 Challenging Dominant Histories
Introduction: Claire Cochrane (University of Worcester, UK) and Jo Robinson
(University of Nottingham, UK) 3.2.1 Theatre History vs Theatre Canon: the
Chilean Case Milena Grass Kleiner (Pontificia Universidad Católica de
Chile, USA), Mariana Hausdorf Andrade (Independent Scholar), Nancy Nicholls
(Universidad Católica de Chile, USA) 3.2.2 When Napoleon went to the
Theatre: A Closer Examination of Stories and the History of the Milanese
Patriotic Scene Laura Peja (Università Cattolica, Italy) 3.3 Politics,
Precursors and Erasure Introduction: Claire Cochrane (University of
Worcester, UK) and Jo Robinson (University of Nottingham, UK) 3.3.1 How to
Make Political Theatre? Polish Socialist Realism as a Historiographical
Problem Dorota Sosnowska (Institute of Polish Culture, University of
Warsaw, Poland) 3.3.2 The First Actress Party:Adunni Oluwole and the First
Guerrilla Theatre in Nigeria Ngozi Udengwu (University of Nigeria, Nigeria)
3.4 Mapping Landscapes of Theatre Introduction: Claire Cochrane (University
of Worcester, UK) and Jo Robinson (University of Nottingham, UK) 3.4.1
Mapping London's Amateur Theatre Histories David Coates (University of
Warwick, UK) 3.4.2 Between Back Province and Metropolis. Actor
Autobiographies as Sources to Trace Cultural Mobility Katharina Wessely
(University of Vienna, Austria) 3.5 Place and the Performance Event
Introduction: Claire Cochrane (University of Worcester, UK) and Jo Robinson
(University of Nottingham, UK) 3.5.1. History vs Historiography. A
Renaissance Case Study Revisited Clelia Falletti (University of Rome,
Italy), trans. by Victor Emmanuel Jacono 3.5.2 Of Shrine and Stage: A Study
of Huizhou Temple Theatre in Late Imperial China Xiaohuan Zhao (Shanxi
Normal University & Donghua University, Shanghai, China) 3.6 Material
Evidence and the Archive Introduction: Claire Cochrane (University of
Worcester, UK) and Jo Robinson (University of Nottingham, UK) 3.6.1
Historiography of Yellowface: Stage Makeup, Materiality and Technology
Esther Kim Lee (Duke University, USA) 3.6.2 Archived Voices: Attempting to
Listen to the Theatrical Past Ruthie Abeliovich (University of Haifa,
Israel) 3.7 The Imperatives of Local Difference Introduction: Claire
Cochrane (University of Worcester, UK) and Jo Robinson (University of
Nottingham, UK) 3.7.1 What's in a Name? The Performance of Language in the
Invention of Colonial and Postcolonial South Asian Theatre History Rashna
Darius Nicholson (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) 3.7.2 Korean Masked
Dance Drama and a Historiography of Emotions Hyunshik Ju (Kyonggi
University, South Korea) 3.8 Rhizomes and Palimpsests: Theatre Histories
Across Cultures Introduction: Claire Cochrane (University of Worcester, UK)
and Jo Robinson (University of Nottingham, UK) 3.8.1 Erased Trails:
Investigating Icelandic-Canadian Theatre History Magnus Thor Thorbergsson
(University of Iceland, Iceland) 3.8.2 Decolonizing Theatre History in the
Arab World (The Case of the Maghreb) Khalid Amine (Abdelmalek Essaadi
University, Tétouan, Morocco) 4. Changing Perspectives and Current
Challenges Introduction: Claire Cochrane (University of Worcester, UK) and
Jo Robinson (University of Nottingham, UK) 4.1 A Manifesto for Performance
Research Elisabeth Dutton (University of Fribourg, Switzerland) 4.2
Digital Histories, Digital Landscapes: New Possibilities of Arranging the
Record Jo Robinson (University of Nottingham, UK) 4.3 Historians in
Dialogue: a Roundtable Discussion 5.1. Works Cited 5.2 Annotated
Bibliography 5.3 Selected Resources Index