Theatre Histories: An Introduction 3rd Edition, (Ebook PDF)

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Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0415837960
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0415837965
• Author: Bruce McConachie (Author), Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei (Author), Tamara Underiner (Author), Tobin Nellhaus (Author)

This thoroughly revised and updated third edition of the innovative and widely acclaimed Theatre Histories: An Introduction offers a critical overview of global theatre and drama, spanning a broad wealth of world cultures and periods. Bringing together a group of scholars from a diverse range of backgrounds to add fresh perspectives on the history of global theatre, the book illustrates historiographical theories with case studies demonstrating various methods and interpretive approaches.

Table contents:

1. From oral to literate performance
2. Pleasure, power, and aesthetics : theatre in early literate societies, 500 BCE-1450 CE
3. Commemorative drama and carnival
4. Secular and early professional theatre, 1250-1650
5. Theatre and the print revolution, 1550-1650
6. Theatres of absolutism, 1600-1770
7. Theatre and sentiment : newspapers, private lives, and the bourgeois public sphere, 1700-1785
8. Nationalism in the theatre, 1760-1880
9. Performing “progress” : from imperial display to the triumph of realism and naturalism, 1790-1914
10. New media divide the theatres of print culture, 1870-1930
11. New theatres for revolutionary times, 1910-1950
12. The aftermath of the Second World War : realism and its discontents in an increasingly shrinking world, 1940-1970
13. Art, politics, or business? Theatre in search of identity, 1968-2000
14. Theatres of local roots and global reach, 1970-present
15. Theatre in networked culture, 1990-present