The Cambridge introduction to theatre historiography
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York
Cambridge University Press
2009
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| Series: | Cambridge introductions to literature
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: on some preliminary matters
- Documentary history vs. cultural history: two case studies
- Documentary histories: the case of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre
- Cultural histories: the case of Alfred Jarry's Ubu roi
- Historical vs. theatrical events
- The historical event
- The theatrical event
- Placing events within their contexts
- The criteria for periodization in theatre history: definitive categories for events
- The idea of the "political" in our histories of theatre: causal contexts for events
- Summing up
- The theatrical event and its conditions: a primer with twelve cruxes.
