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Cella Matthew J. C. <1964-> |
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Titolo |
Representing the past [[electronic resource] ] : essays in performance historiography / / edited by Charlotte M. Canning and Thomas Postlewait |
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Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, 2010 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (429 p.) |
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Collana |
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Studies in theatre history and culture |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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CanningCharlotte <1964-> |
PostlewaitThomas |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 theater, dramatic history, and the question of representation / XIAOMEI CHEN -- NARRATIVE. Textual evidances / SUSAN L. FOSTER -- Narratives of nostalgia : Oriental evasions about the London stage / BRIAN SINGLETON -- Re-enacting events to narrate theatre history / BRUCE McCONACHIE. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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How do historians represent the past? How do theatre historians represent performance events? The fifteen challenging essays in |
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