Research Catalog

Title

Representing the past : essays in performance historiography / edited by Charlotte M. Canning & Thomas Postlewait.

Publication

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2010.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Canning, Charlotte, 1964-
• Postlewait, Thomas.

Description

viii, 416 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Studies in theatre history and culture

Uniform Title

Studies in theatre history and culture.

Subject

• Theater > Historiography

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Representing the past : an introduction on five themes / THOMAS POSTLEWAIT AND CHARLOTTE CANNING -- ARCHIVE. Playbills and the theatrical public sphere / CHRISTOPHER B. BALME -- The making of theatre history / SUSAN BENNETT -- Writing the unwritten : Morris dance and theatre history / CLAIRE SPONSLER -- TIME. Cyclic perseverance and linear mobility of theatrical events / WILLMAR SAUTER -- Performative time / TRACY C. DAVIS -- Representing India's pasts : time, culture, and the problems of performance historiography / APARNA DHARWADKER -- SPACE. Space and theatre history / MARVIN CARLSON -- Seeing is believing : the historian's use of images / DAVID WILES -- When "everything counts" : experimental performance and performance historiography / SHANNON JACKSON -- IDENTITY. History's thresholds : stories from Africa / CATHERINE M. COLE -- The high stakes of identity : Lorraine Hansberry's Follow the drinking gourd and Suzan-Lori Parks' Venus / HARRY J. ELAM, JR. -- Fifty years of staging a founding father : political theatre, dramatic history, and the question of representation in modern China / XIAOMEI CHEN -- NARRATIVE. Textual evidances / SUSAN L. FOSTER -- Narratives of nostalgia : Oriental evasions about the London stage / BRIAN SINGLETON -- Reenacting events to narrate theatre history / BRUCE McCONACHIE.

Call Number

MWEC 10-8100

ISBN

• 9781587299056 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 1587299054 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2010010259

OCLC

YBP 2010010259

Title

Representing the past : essays in performance historiography / edited by Charlotte M. Canning & Thomas Postlewait.

Imprint

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2010.

Series

Studies in theatre history and culture

Studies in theatre history and culture.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Canning, Charlotte, 1964-

Postlewait, Thomas.

Research Call Number

MWEC 10-8100