In a series of essays, several of the most significant figures in the field present a wide-ranging interrogation of the practice of theatre history studies at the present time, raising questions of history and historiography; the bearing of national, sexual, and racial identity on the canons of theatre history; the limits of print and the history of non-textual forms of performance; the intersections between theatre and other forms of commodification; and even the work of performance at the borders of the human.

'This charming mosaic - each piece having been placed by a different hand - is still worthwhile reading, with some wonderful essays.' - Leslie Barcza, Consciousness, Literature and the Arts

'There is much to offer in this volume and I would heartily recommend it to anyone working in theatre and performance history.' - New Theatre Quarterly

Autorentext
SUSAN BENNETT University Professor and Professor of English at the University of Calgary, Canada UNA CHAUDHURI Professor of English and Drama at New York University, USA SUSAN LEIGH FOSTER Professor in the World Arts and Cultures Program at UCLA, USA BARBARA HODGDON Adjunct Professor of English and Theatre at the University of Michigan, USA DENNIS KENNEDY Samuel Beckett Professor of Drama and Head of the School of Drama in Trinity College, Dublin LOREN KRUGER Teaches at the University of Chicago, USA THOMAS POSTLEWAIT Professor of Theatre at Ohio State University, USA JOSEPH ROACH Charles C. and Dorothea S. Dilley Professor of Theatre at Yale, USA FREDDIE ROKEM Dean of the Faculty of the Arts and Professor of Theatre Studies at Tel Aviv University, Israel

Inhalt
List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Series Introduction - Redefining British Theatre History; P.Holland Volume Introduction - Theorizing Practice; W.B.Worthen PART I: HISTORIOGRAPHIES A History of Histories: From Flecknoe to Nicoll; P.Holland Confessions of an Encyclopedist; D.Kennedy The Criteria for Evidence: Anecdotes in Shakespearean Biography, 1709-2000; T.Postlewait PART II: OBJECTIVITIES Decomposing History (Why Are There So Few Women in Theatre History?); S.Bennett Photography, Theatre, Mnemonics; or, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Still; B.Hodgdon Vicarious: Theatre and the Rise of Synthetic Experience; J.Roach Zoo Stories: "Boundary Work" in Theatre History; U.Chaudhuri PART III: DIS/CONTINUITIES History Plays (in) Britain: Dramas, Nations, and Inventing the Present; L.Kruger Deus ex machina in the Modern theatre: Theatre, History, and Theatre History; F.Rokem PART IV: ABSENCES Improvising/ History; S.L.Foster The Imprint of Performance; W.B.Worthen Index