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Interpreting the Theatrical Past : Essays in the Historiography of Performance
author
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Postlewait, Thomas.
publisher
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University of Iowa Press
isbn10 | asin
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0877452385
print isbn13
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9780877452386
ebook isbn13
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9781587291920
language
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English
subject
Theater--Historiography.
publication date
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1989
lcc
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PN2115.I54 1989eb
ddc
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792
subject
:
Theater--Historiography.
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Interpreting the Theatrical Past
Essays in the Historiography of Performance
Edited by Thomas Postlewait & Bruce A. McConachie
University of Iowa Press Iowa City
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University of Iowa Press, Iowa City 52242 Copyright 1989 by the University of Iowa All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Second printing, 1991
Design by Richard Hendel Typesetting by G&S Typesetters, Austin, Texas Printing and binding by Edwards Brothers, Ann Arbor, Michigan
No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, without permission in writing from the publisher.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Interpreting the theatrical past: essays in the historiography of performance / edited by Thomas Postlewait and Bruce A McConachie. 1st ed. p. cm. Bibliography: p. Includes index. ISBN 0-87745-228-8, ISBN 0-87745-238-5 (pbk.) 1. TheaterHistoriography. I. Postlewait, Thomas. II. McConachie, Bruce A. PN2115.154 1989 88-35045 792dc19 CIP
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Contents
Acknowledgments
vii
Introduction
Thomas Postlewait & Bruce A. McConachie
ix
Theatre History as an Academic Discipline
R. W. Vince
1
Theatre and the Civilizing Process: An Approach to the History of Acting
Erika Fischer-Lichte
19
Using the Concept of Cultural Hegemony to Write Theatre History
Bruce A. McConachie
37
Questions for a Feminist Methodology in Theatre History
Tracy C. Davis
59
Theatre Audiences and the Reading of Performance
Marvin Carlson
82
Power's Body: The Inscription of Morality as Style
Joseph R. Roach
99
Opera as Historical Drama: La Clemenza di Tito, Khovanshchina, Moses und Aron
Herbert Lindenberger
119
Here Comes Everybody: Scholarship and Black Theatre History
James V. Hatch
148
Emphasizing the Avant-Garde: An Exploration in Theatre Historiography
Alan Woods
166
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Evidence and Documentation
Joseph Donohue
177
Performance Reconstruction: The Vital Link between Past and Future
Robert K. Sarls
198
Actors' Biography and Mythmaking: The Example of Edmund Kean
Leigh Woods
230
Autobiography and Theatre History
Thomas Postlewait
248
Historiography: A Select Bibliography
Thomas Postlewait
273
Theatre History
275
Art, Literary, and Cultural History
280
General Historiography
291
Notes on Contributors
307
Index
311
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Acknowledgments
Herbert Lindenberger's essay was first published in Idee-Gestalt-Geschichte: Festschrift fr Klaus von See, ed. Gert Wolfgang Weber (Odense: Odense University Press, 1987). We thank Professor Weber for permission to reprint the essay.
Robert Sarls' essay is a substantially revised and expanded version of an essay first published in The Drama Review, volume 28, number 3 (Fall 1984). We thank MIT Press for permission to reprint this essay.
In addition, we appreciate the secretarial help we received from Tracey Roberts and Michelle Henry, Department of Drama, University of Georgia, and Phyllis Leffler and Deborah Buchman, Program in American Studies, College of William and Mary.
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