Theatre Histories: An Introduction / Edition 2

by Phillip B. Zarrilli

Overview

'A work that more than any other currently available suggests the range and richness of theatre and performance history study today.' – Marvin Carlson, City University of New York, USA

'This book will significantly change theatre education.' – Janelle Reinelt, University of California, Irvine, USA

'Globally ambitious in its scope, innovative in design, and open-ended in its challenge to the received histories, this new grand narrative will engage scholars and students at every level, whatever their particular interests in past performance.' – Jacky Bratton, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

'Finally we have a book that conceives theatre history in world terms and breaks down the Euro-American boundaries that have marginalised the theatres of other cultures for so long.' – Brian Singleton, The University of Dublin, Trinity College

This new edition of the innovative and widely acclaimed Theatre Histories: An Introduction offers overviews of theatre and drama in many world cultures and periods together with case studies demonstrating the methods and interpretive approaches used by today's theatre historians.

Completely revised and renewed in colour, enhancements and new material include:

• a full-colour text design with added timelines to each opening section
• a wealth of new colour illustrations to help convey the vitality of performances described
• new case studies on African, Asian and Western subjects
• a new chapter on modernism, and updated and expanded chapters and part introductions
• fuller definitions of terms and concepts throughout in a new glossary
• a re-designed support website offering links to new audio-visual resources, expanded bibliographies, approaches to teaching theatre and performance history, discussion questions relating to case studies and an online glossary

Product Details

ISBN-13:	2900415462241
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/28/2009
Edition description:	Older Edition
Pages:	640
Product dimensions:	7.40(w) x 9.60(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Phillip B. Zarrilli is Professor of Performance Practice in the Department of Drama at the University of Exeter.

Bruce McConachie is Director of Graduate Studies in Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Pittsburgh.

Gary Jay Williams is Professor Emeritus, Department of Drama, The Catholic University of America in Washington, D. C., where he taught in theatre history, theory, and Shakespeare in performance for 29 years.

Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei is Professor of Theater at UCLA.

Table of Contents

Preface: Interpreting Performances and Cultures Part 1: Introduction: Performance and Theatre in Oral and Written Cultures before 1600 1. Oral, Ritual, and Shamanic Performance 2. Religious and Civic Festivals: Early Drama and Theatre in Context 3. Imperial Theatre: Pleasure, Power, and Aesthetics Part 2: Introduction: Theatre and Print Cultures, 1500-1900 4. Theatre and the State, 1600-1900 5. Theatres for Knowledge through Feeling, 1700- 1900 6. Theatre, Nation, and Empire, 1750-1900 Part 3: Introduction: Theatre in Modern Media Cultures, 1850-1970 7. Theatres of Popular Entertainment, 1850-1970 8. Theatre of the Avant-Garde and their Legacy, 1880-1970 9. Theatres for Reform and Revolution, 1880-1990 Part 4: Introduction: Theatre and Performance in the Age of Global Communications, 1950- 2005 10. Rich and Poor Theatres of Globalization 11. Director, Text, and Performance in the Postmodern World 12. Interculturalism, Hybridity, Tourism—the Performing World on New Terms Index

What People are Saying About This

Marvin Carlson

By looking at theatre and performance from a global perspective and utilizing a range of critical methodologies, the authors have provided a work that more than any other currently available suggests the range and richness of theatre and performance history study today. (Marvin Carlson, City University of New York)