Theorizing Practice: Redefining Theatre History

By: Holland, Peter

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403907943
• ISBN13: 9781403907943
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"