Performance reconstruction and Spanish golden age drama
Subtitle: reviving and revising the comedia
By: Laura L. Vidler
Series: Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 187
ISBN-13: 9781137439758
Subjects: Spanish drama; History and criticism; Theater; History; PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism; PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / Stagecraft; HISTORY / Europe / Spain & Portugal
Description: "Taking into account the ephemeral nature of performance, this book develops innovative approaches to the reconstruction of historical staging practices through the lens of Spanish classical theater. Vidler emphasizes the need to take into account not only structures of culture, but also the human capacity to manipulate those structures for both individual and group expression. Through a detailed analysis of approaches to space, the body, the stage object, and the spectator in the comedia, it is possible to discern analyzable artifacts that permit us to reconstruct significant aspects of early modern stagings. Furthermore, because it actively engages and intertwines both objective and subjective modes of interpretation, Vidler argues that performance theory itself will be the locus of the next breakthroughs in interpretive studies"--

"Taking into account the ephemeral nature of performance, this book develops innovative approaches to the reconstruction of historical staging practices through the lens of the comedia, Spain's classical theater. While poststructuralism and other theories problematize previous studies, this book argues that an interdisciplinary approach to staging reconstruction produces illuminating conclusions"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Introduction: Critical Theory and the Reconstruction of Early Modern Performance1. Revisiting Comedia Reconstruction in a Revisionist Performance Environment2. The Habitus of Corral Scenic Space3. (Re)Placing the Corral Body4. Staging the Object5. Women/Objects on the Modern and Early Modern Stage: Two Exceptional Case Studies6. Adaptation, Translation, and the Relevance of Classical Theatrical Performance7. Theory Performance.