Representing the past
Subtitle: essays in performance historiography
By: edited by Charlotte M. Canning and Thomas Postlewait.
Contributors: Canning, Charlotte, 1964-; Postlewait, Thomas.
Series: Studies in theatre history and culture
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Iowa City
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781587299056; 9781587299384
Subjects: Theater -- Historiography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Representing the past : an introduction on five themes / THOMAS POSTLEWAIT AND CHARLOTTE CANNING; title: ARCHIVE. Playbills and the theatrical public sphere / CHRISTOPER B. BALME; title: The making of theatre history / SUSAN BENNETT; title: Writing the unwritten : Morris dance and theatre history / CLAIRE SPONSLER; title: TIME. Cyclic perseverance and linear mobility of theatrical events / WILLMAR SAUTER; title: Performative time / TRACY C. DAVIS; title: Representing India's pasts : time, culture, and the problems of performance historiography / APARNA DHARWADKER; title: SPACE. Space and theatre history / MARVIN CARLSON; title: Seeing is believing : the historian's use of images / DAVID WILES; title: When "everything counts" : experimental performance and performance historiography / Shannon Jackson. IDENTITY. History's thresholds : stories from Africa / CATHERINE M. COLE; title: The high stakes of identity : Lorraine Hansberry's Follow the drinking gourd and Suzan-Lori Parks' Venus / HARRY J. ELAM, JR.; title: Fifty years of staging a founding father : political theater, dramatic history, and the question of representation / XIAOMEI CHEN; title: NARRATIVE. Textual evidances / SUSAN L. FOSTER; title: Narratives of nostalgia : Oriental evasions about the London stage / BRIAN SINGLETON; title: Re-enacting events to narrate theatre history / BRUCE McCONACHIE.