Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance Historiography

<p><em>The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance Historiography</em> 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.</p><p>Written by an international team of authors whose expertise spans a multitude of historical periods and cultures, this collection of fascinating essays poses the central question: "what is specific to the historiography of the performative?" The study of theatre, in conjunction with the wider sphere of performance, involves an array of multi-faceted methods for collecting evidence, interpreting sources, and creating meaning. Reflecting on issues of recording — from early modern musical scores, through VHS-technology to latest digital procedures — and on what is missing from records or oblique in practices, the contributors convey how theatre and performance history is integral to social and cultural relations. </p><p>This expertly curated collection repositions theatre and performance history and is essential reading for Theatre and Performance Studies students or those interested in social and cultural history more generally.</p> <p>Introduction: On Critical Media History - TRACY C. DAVIS AND PETER W. MARX; Part I <b>Theatre History is Performance History; </b>1 The Size of All That’s Missing - ODAI JOHNSON; 2<i> Gyno Ludens</i>: A Doll House Redux - NATASHA KORDA; 3 Rethinking Categories of Theatre and Performance: Archive, Scholarship, and Practices (A Post-Colonial Indian Perspective) - BISHNUPRIYA DUTT; 4 Dancing with the Living Dead: State Violence in South Korea and the Performance of Memory - ELIZABETH W. SON; 5 Setasidedness - TRACY C. DAVIS; Part II <b>Materiality and the Sensorium; </b>6 Performatic Archives: Mobilising Affects in Eighteenth-Century Mexico - LEO CABRANES-GRANT; 7 German Radio Drama and the "Cultural Formation" of Interiority - MICHAEL BACHMANN; 8 Canonising Impulses, Cartographic Desires, and the Legibility of History: Why Speak of/for "Indian" Theatrical Pasts? - RASHNA DARIUS NICHOLSON; 9 De-colonising Theatre History: Ontology Alterity, Acting Objects, and What Theatre Studies Can Learn from Museums - MARGARET WERRY; Part III <b>Locating; </b>10 Off the Record: Contrapuntal Theatre History - NOÉMIE NDIAYE; 11 The Theorist and the Theorised: Indigenous Critiques of Performance Studies - STEPHANIE NOHELANI TEVES; 12 Complicating Hybridity: A View from/through the Andean Patron-Saint Fiesta - ENZO E. VASQUEZ TORAL; 13 Theatre-Historiographical Patterns in the Global South 1950–1990: Transnational and Institutional Perspectives - CHRISTOPHER BALME; 14 The Role of Theatre in the Modernisation of Tunisia - VICKI ANN CREMONA & MAHMOUD MEJRI; 15 Translation and/as Theatre and Performance Historiography: Towards a Reconsideration of a Neglected but Omnipresent Challenge - JEAN GRAHAM-JONES; Part IV <b>Historicising; </b>16 On Circulation and Recycling - PETER W. MARX; 17 Towards an Expansive Historiography of Jews as Creative Collaborators and Hired Contractors in Early-Modern Italian Theatre and Performance - ERITH JAFFE-BERG; 18 Renaissance Theatre and Clockpunk Historiography - ELLEN MACKAY; 19 Theatre History as Contemporary History - MATTHIAS WARSTAT; Part V <b>Scaling; </b>20 Modelling the World through Play: An Exploration in Repurposing, Representation, and History Writing - PAVEL DRÁBEK; 21 Towards a New Culture of Public Negotiation: Interplay between Political and Theatrical Spheres in the Vienna Revolution of 1848 - STEFAN HULFELD; 22 Performance Texts and Recording Performance: Towards a Methodology of Multiplicity - SHARON ARONSON-LEHAVI; 23 Quantitative Visualisation and Qualitative Research: The Beijing Opera <i>Yinpeixiang</i> (Video Matching Audio) Project - SIYUAN LIU</p>