Critical Essays on European Theatre Performance Practice: 4-Volume Set

Abstract:

This series of volumes provides access to a compendium of the best and most significant scholarship published on European performance practice over the last half century or so. The featured articles and book chapters provide a comprehensive introduction to many of the major past and current developments in the field, emphasizing acting, performance spaces, staging and audiences, from the Middle Ages to the present day. Each of the four volumes covers a specific period: these, with inevitable overlaps dictated by geographical and other concerns, are 1400–1580, 1580–1750, 1750–1900 and 1900 to the present. The volume editors have selected those publications that most usefully represent performance practice within their own specialist period. The strong focus on British theatre is complemented by European material and references. The timeframe spanned by the four volumes witnessed striking changes in definitions of the term ‘performance’. The editors of the first and fourth volumes confront this challenge from different perspectives. Philip Butterworth and Katie Normington remind us that the term ‘performance’ was not used in conjunction with what we now define as ‘theatrical performance’ prior to 1580. For the purpose of considering medieval performance they insist that the term must encompass: "the conscious and deliberate organization, execution, perception and reception of theatre and its aftermath to people who choose to witness and participate in it. This involves indoor and outdoor performance – both formal and informal, theatre of the streets and the deliberate organization and construction of stage and spectator space." …

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2014

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