This provocative book meets the supposedly 'live' practices of performance and the 'no-longer-live' historical past at their own dangerous crossroads. Focussing on the 'and' of the title, it addresses the tangled relations between the terms, practices, ideas, and aims embedded in these compatriot - but often oppositional - arts and acts of time.

This provocative book meets the supposedly 'live' practices of performance and the 'no-longer-live' historical past at their own dangerous crossroads. Focussing on the 'and' of the title, it addresses the tangled relations between the terms, practices, ideas, and aims embedded in these compatriot - but often oppositional - arts and acts of time.

Part of the successful and innovative Theatre And series

Autorentext
Rebecca Schneider is Professor of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies at Brown University, USA.

Inhalt

Series Editors' Preface.- 1. Theatre And History.- 2. 'And'.- .- 3. 'History'.- 4. 'Theatre'.- 5. History and the Theatre Artist.- 6. The Anti-theatrical Prejudice.- 7. The Anti-intellectual Prejudice.- 8. Theatre and the Historian.- 9. The Problem with Passions.- 10. The Problem with Archives.- 11. Whose History is Theatre's History?.- 12. Of Knives and Blood.- Bibliography.- Index.