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• Title:The Cambridge companion to theatre history / edited by David Wiles and Christine Dymkowski.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Wiles, David.
  Dymkowski, Christine, 1950-
  
• Published/Created:Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: PN2101 .C36 2013
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Theater--History.
  
• Description:xv, 318 pages : ill. ; 23 cm.
  
• Series:Cambridge companions to literature.
  
• Summary:"Scholars, amateur historians and actors have shaped theatre history in different ways at different times and in different places. This Companion offers students and general readers a series of accessible and engaging essays on the key aspects of studying and writing theatre history. The diverse international team of contributors investigates how theatre history has been constructed, showing how historical facts are tied to political and artistic agendas and explaining why history matters to us"-- Provided by publisher.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780521766364 (hardback)
  0521766362 (hardback)
  9780521149839 (paperback)
  0521149835 (paperback)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: pt. I WHY?
  1. Why theatre history? / David Wiles
  pt. II WHEN?
  Indicative timeline
  2. Modernist theatre / Stefan Hulfeld
  3. Baroque to romantic theatre / Christopher Baugh
  4. Medieval, renaissance and early modern theatre / David Wiles
  5. Classical theatre / Erika Fischer-Lichte
  pt. III WHERE?
  6. Liverpool / Ros Merkin
  7. Finland / S. E. Wilmer
  8. Egypt / Hazem Azmy
  9. Traditional theatre: the case of Japanese Noh / Diego Pellecchia
  10. Reflections on a global theatre history / Marvin Carlson
  pt. IV WHAT?
  11. audience / Willmar Sauter
  12. art of acting / Josette Feral
  13. Music theatre and musical theatre / Zachary Dunbar
  14. Circus / Marius Kwint
  pt. V HOW?
  15. nature of historical evidence: a case study / Thomas Postlewait
  16. visual record: the case of Hamlet / Barbara Hodgdon
  17. Museums, archives and collecting / Fiona Macintosh
  18. Re: Enactment / Gilli Bush-Bailey
  19. internet: history 2.0? / Grant Tyler Peterson.