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Examining political performances' spatial arrangements, casting of roles, authorization of speech, oratorical techniques, styles of movement, behavioral conventions, and audience reactions, this book shows how nineteenth-century activists innovatively connected performative forms to critical content in order to make their activism more effective"--

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance Historiography sets the agenda for inclusive and wide-ranging approaches to writing history, embracing the diverse perspectives of the twenty-first century and Critical Media History.

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Tells thirteen variants of Uncle Tom's journey, explicating the novel's significance for Canadian abolitionists, nineteenth-century French theatregoers, liberal Cuban, Romanian, and Spanish intellectuals, Dutch colonizers and Filipino nationalists, Eastern European Cold War communists, Muslim readers and spectators in the Middle East, Brazilian TV audiences, and German holidaymakers.

Using historical evidence and personal accounts, Davis examines the reality of conditions for ordinary actresses, their working environments, employment patterns, and the reasons why acting continued a popular, though insecure, profession.

Provides a representative sample of plays and performances - from a range of genres, styles, and formats - that were popular on the nineteenth century British stage. The introduction explores the ways in which different plays and dramatic conventions related to each other, and how audiences understood these conventions.

Specially-commissioned essays explore the element of performance theory known as "theatricality" in six case studies that use specific circumstances to illustrate how the concept of "theatricality" developed. Topics covered include early use of the term, employment of theatricality by other disciplines to describe events, non-Western interpretation of theatricality, and its role in analyzing political and cultural events and philosophies. The ...

A comprehensive study of economic theory in relation to the development of nineteenth-century British theatre.

Traces the theatrical and political influences on Shaw from his earliest days in London, tracks his interest in socialism as an activist and author of tracts, novels and plays emphasising certain polemical traits, and his career as a major literary figure into the mid-20th century.

This 1999 collection of essays recovers the names and careers of nineteenth-century women playwrights.

During the nineteenth century, British theatre developed into an industry with considerable importance in the economy, diversified by whole new forms of entertainment - first music hall then cinema - evolving alongside the dramatic stage. This comprehensive study examines the theatre’, s growth from an economic perspective. Tracy Davis reflects the debates of economic theorists from Adam Smith to Alfred Marshall to investigate three key a...

This collection of essays recovers the names and careers of nineteenth-century women playwrights.

Cultural history of the nuclear civil defense excercises in the US, Canada, and the UK, which emphasizes the performative aspect of the staged drills and evacuations.

Cultural history of the nuclear civil defense excercises in the US, Canada, and the UK, which emphasizes the performative aspect of the staged drills and evacuations.

In this book, leading scholars in the field of Performance Studies consider diverse approaches to this vibrant discipline.

Presenting a clear overview of the diverse approaches to Performance Studies, this Companion provides a complete guide for students and scholars seeking a perspective on trends in the field. Bridging live art practices with technological media, and social sciences with humanities, it reflects the hybrid and experimental nature of this vibrant discipline.