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  • History of European Drama and Theatre

    Translated by Jo Riley ...
    This major study reconstructs the vast history of European drama from Greek tragedy through to twentieth-century theatre, focusing on the subject of identity. Throughout history, drama has performed and represented political, religious, national, ethnic, class-related, gendered, and individual concepts of identity.Erika Fischer-Lichte's topics include:* ancient Greek theatre* Shakespeare and ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Entangled Performance Histories

    New Approaches to Theater Historiography

    Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
    Entangled Performance Histories is the first book-length study that applies the concept of "entangled histories" as a new paradigm in the field of theater and performance historiography."Entangled histories" denotes the interconnectedness of multiple histories that cannot be addressed within national frameworks. The concept refers to interconnected pasts, in which historical processes of contact ... Read more

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  • Performance Cultures as Epistemic Cultures, Volume I

    (Re)Generating Knowledges in Performance

    Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
    This volume investigates performances as situated "machineries of knowing" (Karin Knorr Cetina), exploring them as relational processes for, in and with which performers as well as spectators actively (re)generate diverse practices of knowing, knowledges and epistemologies.Performance cultures are distinct but interconnected environments of knowledge practice. Their characteristic features depend ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Theatrical Speech Acts: Performing Language

    Politics, Translations, Embodiments

    Theatrical Speech Acts: Performing Language explores the significance and impact of words in performance, probing how language functions in theatrical scenarios, what it can achieve under particular conditions, and what kinds of problems may arise as a result.Presenting case studies from around the globe—spanning Argentina, Egypt, Germany, India, Indonesia, Korea, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Thailand, ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Performance Cultures as Epistemic Cultures, Volume II

    Interweaving Epistemologies

    Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
    This volume investigates performance cultures as rich and dynamic environments of knowledge practice through which distinctive epistemologies are continuously (re)generated, cultivated and celebrated. Epistemologies are dynamic formations of rules, tools and procedures not only for understanding but also for doing knowledges.This volume deals in particular with epistemological challenges posed by ... Read more

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  • The Routledge Companion to Performance-Related Concepts in Non-European Languages

    Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
    Investigating more than 70 key concepts relating to the performing arts in more than six non-European languages, this volume provides a groundbreaking research tool and one-of-a-kind reference source for theatre, performance and dance studies worldwide.The Companion features in-depth explorations of and expert introductions to a select number of performance-related key concepts in Arabic, Chinese, ... Read more

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  • Dramaturgies of Interweaving

    Engaging Audiences in an Entangled World

    Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
    Dramaturgies of Interweaving explores present-day dramaturgies that interweave performance cultures in the fields of theater, performance, dance, and other arts.Merging strategies of audience engagement originating in different cultures, dramaturgies of interweaving are creative methods of theater and art-making that seek to address audiences across cultures, making them uniquely suitable for ... Read more

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  • Global Ibsen

    Performing Multiple Modernities

    Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
    Ibsen’s plays rank among those most frequently performed world-wide, rivaled only by Brecht, Chekhov, Shakespeare, and the Greek tragedies. By the time Ibsen died in 1906, his plays had already conquered the theaters of the Western world. Inviting rapturous praise as well as fierce controversy, they were performed in Europe, North America, and Australia, contributing greatly to the theater, ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Performance and the Politics of Space

    Theatre and Topology

    Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
    From its very beginnings, theatre has been both an art and a public space, shared by actors and spectators. As a result, its entity and history is intimately tied to politics: a politics of inclusion and exclusion, of distributions and placements, of spatial appropriation and utopian concepts. This collection examines what is at stake when a theatrical space is created and when a performance takes ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • The Politics of Interweaving Performance Cultures

    Beyond Postcolonialism

    Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
    This book provides a timely intervention in the fields of performance studies and theatre history, and to larger issues of global cultural exchange. The authors offer a provocative argument for rethinking the scholarly assessment of how diverse performative cultures interact, how they are interwoven, and how they are dependent upon each other.While the term ‘intercultural theatre’ as a concept ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Transformative Power of Performance

    A New Aesthetics

    Translated by Saskya Jain ...
    In this book, Erika Fischer-Lichte traces the emergence of performance as 'an art event' in its own right. In setting performance art on an equal footing with the traditional art object, she heralds a new aesthetics.The peculiar mode of experience that a performance provokes – blurring distinctions between artist and audience, body and mind, art and life – is here framed as the breeding ground for ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • The Routledge Introduction to Theatre and Performance Studies

    Erika Fischer-Lichte's introduction to the discipline of Theatre and Performance Studies is a strikingly authoritative and wide ranging guide to the study of theatre in all of its forms. Its three-part structure moves from the first steps in starting to think about performance, through to the diverse and interrelated concerns required of higher-level study:Part 1 – Central Concepts for Theatre and ... Read more

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