Questions about how theater history should be taught have in recent years provoked passionate discussions. Some scholars have argued that the emerging discipline of performance studies should replace theater history altogether. On the other side of the debate, traditional theater historians have sometimes rejected performance studies analyses as unsatisfactorily diffuse and less than rigorous. Showcasing the work of scholars conducting innovative and compelling research in theater history, Theater Historiography collects original essays that probe key methodological questions about interdisciplinarity, postcolonialism, the archive, and digital technology. The result is a volume that features a cohesiveness of theme and purpose while encompassing a range of approaches, historic periods, geographical areas, and performance genres. Taken together, the essays demonstrate the synergistic relationship between theater history and performance studies. Though the two fields have often seemed to be in conflict, the scholarship presented here draws freely on the methods and terminologies of both disciplines, showing that the critical intersection between theater history and performance studies is not just desirable, but inevitable.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
The University of Michigan Press
ISBN-13
9780472051335
eBay Product ID (ePID)
105401576
Product Key Features
Author
Scott Magelssen, Henry Bial
Publication Name
Theater Historiography: Critical Interventions
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
History
Publication Year
2010
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
Editor
Henry Bial, Scott Magelssen
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